Human lungs that are too damaged for transplant can be ‘fixed’ by hooking them up to a living PIG
Damaged lungs from a deceased donor are often too damaged to be transplanted into someone in need of the life-saving organ. But scientists have found a way to improve the state of lungs which are deemed too battered to be of any use. A host of scientists at both Columbia and Vanderbilt University channelled their inner … Read more