Thousands of transplantable organs are lost every year. Not because they've failed, but because we run out of time to get them where they need to go. Hearts get 4–6 hours. Kidneys, 24–36. After that, the organ degrades, and many never reach a recipient whose life depends on it. 

A few years ago, I joined the founding team of a company that works on extending that window. It's called Until. The science of pausing biological time is one of the most beautiful problems I've encountered: turning biological tissue into a glassy state where molecular motion slows to near-stillness. Below about –130°C, water molecules can't rotate into ice crystal formations. Biological time, in a meaningful sense, stops.

This video moves between two worlds: the quiet work inside the lab, and the life that exists outside it. The ocean at dawn. Friends around a table. The ordinary moments that people on transplant waitlists are fighting to get back to. This is what makes me so passionate about it. 

Watch the full video here.

Learn more about Until here.