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 ...

Chinese scientists have performed the first pig-to-human lung transplant ever, with the organ remaining functional for over a week after surgery. “Here, we report a case of pig-to-human lung ...

For the first time in history, scientists in China have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human patient. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature, the team of ...

Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets specific lung cells and has developed a ...

In 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic rampaged across the world, researchers sought to understand how SARS-CoV-2 infection triggered structural damage in lungs. Since there was no imaging platform to map ...

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