Sarah Gray
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In fact, I even asked the grad student who worked on it most closely, Deirdre Krupp, I said, were you surprised by what you saw?
And she said, for me to be surprised, that implies that I knew what to expect.
She said, we're just at the beginning of this trying to learn about this.
Basically, CytoNet will take a solid liver and they liquefy it, and then they inject the liquid liver into a baby that's waiting on a liver transplant as a bridge therapy.
His liver was bruised when they got it, so they couldn't inject it into a baby.
To determine what was the best temperature to freeze infant liver cells, which is negative 150 degrees Celsius.
We walked through the break room and someone had taken a picture of Thomas that we had handed out.
And they took the photograph and they taped it up in the break room with a little sign that they wrote on it saying Thomas Gray was a donor here March 29th, 2010.
And I was so excited to see that because I thought they're just as curious about us as we are about them.
Like I always wonder who, what kind of person goes to work and opens up a box with a liver in it.
And they're probably wondering what kind of person takes their loved one's liver and puts it in a box and mails it over here.
She said she felt kind of guilty because she wished for this sample.
If you didn't use my son's retina, I would have buried it in the ground.