In all, five rats received a vitrified-then-thawed kidney in a study whose results were published this month in Nature Communications. It’s the first time scientists have shown it’s possible to successfully and repeatedly transplant a life-sustaining mammalian organ after it has been rewarmed from this icy metabolic arrest.
Considering you can freeze a whole mouse and have them survive after unfrozen, but not a human, I wonder how well this will carry over.