US scientists make major progress on lung regeneration

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Source: afp

AFP - US scientists reported important progress Thursday towards building new human lungs by successfully implanting lab-cultivated cells into a rat's lungs, and by creating an artificial device on a microchip that mimics the human lung.

Yale University researchers managed to create lungs that worked from 45 to 120 minutes by using laboratory-cultivated cells and implanted them into rats, a scientific first.

Separately, researchers with the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston created a device that acts like a human lung using blood vessel cells. It is about the size of a rubber eraser.

The artificial lung can be used to test the effects of new medicine and toxins on human lungs, said Wyss Institute director Donald Ingber and the study's main author.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100625-us-scientists-make-major-progress-lung-regeneration

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the related article on sciencemag, just posted in the science forum.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x68240

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1. Well That's Good News For The Cigarette Manufacturers......nt

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2. ...and children born with cystic fibrosis.... nt

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3. HOT DAMN!

This means that I can start smoking again.