Breathing New Life into Old Lungs
June 25, 2010 | Source: Technology Review
Yale University 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.