Organovo Jumps 5% Premarket After Reporting Several Breakthroughs With 3D Bioprinted Tissues BY MT Newswires — 9:30 AM ET 04/16/2018
Won't be much longer part of the transplant waiting list diminishes once Organovo's livers become approved.
Nearly 115,000 people are on the waiting list for an organ transplant in the United States alone, and last year there were just 34,770 transplants performed. Thousands die waiting. Partly, there are too few donations. Also, donated organs can't be stored for long — about four to six hours for a heart or lung, and about 12 hours for a liver. And sometimes surgeons discard organs they fear won't do well because of a donor's age or other health characteristics.