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Developing technology to support and extend life

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Introducing Vessel

Science Vessel is an advanced perfusion system designed for the goal of bringing down costs and enabling sustainable long-term life support

Perfusion circuits are life-support systems that keep blood flowing and oxygenated when the heart and lungs cannot. ECMO, or Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, is the most common example, used in critical care when patients face severe heart or respiratory failure.

These systems act as temporary bridges to recovery because they are prohibitively expensive for long term care. They tether patients to an ICU and require constant manual adjustments to the system like regulating blood pressure or replacing oxygen filters. Patients are often removed from critical support because of labor costs rather than medical limitations.

Large ECMO machine with oxygen tanks, tubing, and monitoring equipment on a wheeled stand in a medical facility.

The Solution

A circuit purpose-built for very long perfusion timelines

Integrated sensing

Real time monitoring of oxygenation, flow rate, pressure, and temperature

A close-up of tubes flowing with blood passing through transparent, rectangular sensors with yellow buttons.

Closed-loop control

Automatic adjustments that eliminate the need for constant human intervention

A set of gray and black monitoring components, including a pump, flow meter and a temperature sensor, through which blood flows in a loop.

Modular design

A platform that supports multiple organs and applications with swappable, sterile components

A grid layout of labeled equipment modules including a dialyzer, oxygenator, pump and Organ Chamber arranged next to each other on a white base with space for more modules.

The Modules

Science Vessel is a modular system that can be configured for different use-cases and applications

Lungs

Oxygenates the blood with gas exchanger

Lungs

Heart

Pumps the blood through the system with dual-circuit pumps

Heart

Kidneys

Maintains blood chemistry with solute exchangers

Kidneys
A cylindrical oxygen tank connected via tubing to components including a temperature sensor, oxygenator and gas mixer. Two stacked grey pump units flowing oxygenated and deoxygenated blood through a central reservoir. A soft clear bag with dialysate connected to a pump, a dialyzer, another pump and a reservoir for yellow waste processed from the primary blood circuit.

What's next

Vessel: perfusion as a destination

We’re extending how long organs and patients can be sustained on perfusion, moving from hours to days, and eventually, months, years, or indefinitely.