It took a broke medical student, a $20 fish tank, and a radical idea that could one day turn failed organs into brand-new ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung ...

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What if scientists could build a realistic model of the human lung, not full-sized, but grown in the lab from living cells? Why would they do this? VIDO scientists based at the University of ...

A single Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium is small enough to ride an exhaled droplet all the way down into the deepest pocket of the lung, where a single layer of alveolar cells is all that ...

Organ Care System, short for OCS, is a new, revolutionary machine capable of increasing the life span of donated lungs by literally keeping them alive and functioning once they’ve been removed from a ...