Lungs
For the first time, researchers have built a functioning lung by growing cells on the skeleton of a donor
lung. The engineered organ was transplanted in a live rat, where it exchanged carbon dioxide with
oxygen in the blood--just as a normal lung would--for two hours. The study is the first proof that old
lung scaffolds can be used as a scaffold on which new lung tissue can grow.
Lung tissue does not regenerate, so the only way to replace a damaged lung, for example in those with
emphysema and cystic fibrosis, is by transplant.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25657/?a=f
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For the first time, researchers have built a functioning lung by growing cells on the skeleton of a donor
lung. The engineered organ was transplanted in a live rat, where it exchanged carbon dioxide with
oxygen in the blood--just as a normal lung would--for two hours. The study is the first proof that old
lung scaffolds can be used as a scaffold on which new lung tissue can grow.
Lung tissue does not regenerate, so the only way to replace a damaged lung, for example in those with
emphysema and cystic fibrosis, is by transplant.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25657/?a=f
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