I'm excited to introduce Mark 1, Until's electromagnet for rapidly rewarming organs from cryogenic storage temperatures. We set out to scale magnetic nanoparticle warming to human-scale organs while keeping the coil losses low enough for hospital use. Mark 1 produces a 900 kHz oscillating field at up to 40 kA/m with 7 kW of coil loss in a bore compatible with human-sized organs. This intersection of field, frequency, coil volume, and efficiency makes the system a first of its kind.
For organ rewarming, we reduce the field strength to 29 kA/m and bring the losses down below 4 kW. At these settings, we have been able to rewarm a vitrified pig kidney loaded with our in-house nanoparticles at 50 C°/min while consuming a total of less than 4 kW out of the wall. At this power, the device could run off of a common single phase 208V circuit. This 50 C°/min warming rate exceeds the critical warming rate required to outrun ice formation using our in-house cryoprotectant.
Mark 1 is just one example of the significance of audacious engineers and applied physicists for progress in reversible cryopreservation. If you're excited by pushing the frontier in hardware to improve human health, join our team.
We’re putting the “reversible” in Reversible Cryopreservation 🧡
Our latest post breaks down how our rewarming process works and shares new human organ-scale rewarming data we’re excited to finally show.
Check it out in the link below 👇