• CryoLife (Kennesaw, Georgia) said a patient has received the first Cryopreserved osteoarticular (OA) allograft transplant for resurfacing articular cartilage in the knee. The OA allograft is a section of bone with overlying cartilage derived from the end of the femur, in this case from the femoral condyle. Dr. Philip Davidson, of Tampa Bay Orthopaedic Specialists (St. Petersburg, Florida), performed the surgery. “Prior to this new cryopreservation technology, OA grafts had limited shelf-life and were generally made available for implant with less than two weeks before expiration,“ he said. “More patients can benefit from these precious grafts as cryopreservation allows for enhanced logistics, improved availability and optimal size and shape matching of these grafts.“ Steven Anderson, president and CEO of CryoLife, said the Cryopreserved OA allografts can be stored and used for up to two years, “which permits CryoLife to perform a complete review of the donor's medical history, including an autopsy report and the results of exhaustive testing on the donor's tissues prior to making these tissues available for implantation.“

• LION bioscience (Heidelberg, Germany) said it has partnered with HP (Palo Alto, California) to extend its range of Linux-supported platforms for SRS to the life sciences. LION will optimize its SRS technology to take advantage of the speed of HP Integrity servers. With the launch of SRS 8.1 this month, SRS will support the HP Integrity Linux platform based on 64-bit Intel Itanium2 processors.