This move reflects increased ability to successfully preserve and transfer organs for Organ transplantation farther than was previously possible.

Ultimately, he said, doctors might be able to use the process to preserve human organs for transplants.

Virgil is a thirty-year-old scientist developing technology to permanently preserve human organs for transplant.

But if the thymus technique did work in humans, researchers would be pressed to find ways to preserve organs for whatever period is needed.

However, with technology constantly increasing in its abilities, the question of what can be done to preserve organs is an issue that is highly controversial.

More recently, a well preserved fossil of Platecarpus tympaniticus has been found that preserves not only skin impressions, but also internal organs.

Ice-blood and chemical amniotic fluid preserving internal organs, major skeletal units, and musculature.

Scientists also have improved techniques to preserve organs from cadavers and have developed more effective anti-rejection drugs and antibiotics.

The process is said to preserve organs in a rigid state for an estimated 1,000 years.

They often preserve the original color patterns, internal organs and even cellular structures of an organism.