We wanted to see if SNC80 could induce biostasis in the heart, which could ultimately lengthen the time between organ donation and ... suspended-animation-type state rapidly through injection ...

Sewer gas can induce 'suspended animation' in mice, say US scientists, and may help to preserve organ function in critically ill patients ... But in mice, it was found to slow down heart rate and ...

But American transplant teams have been more reluctant to accept hearts that have stopped beating, even for a brief time, for fear that lack of oxygen to the heart would damage the organ and ...

had just procured a healthy heart in Juneau, Alaska, and was on his way to Boston to hand-deliver the organ to surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital, who hoped the heart would still be viable ...