Pig lungs live and breathe outside the body for 36 hours in organ transplant breakthrough

Transplanting any organ is, unsurprisingly, a complicated process, but lungs are particularly vulnerable to damage before being implanted. Now, researchers at Columbia Engineering and Vanderbilt University have developed a way to repair that damage, keeping the lungs of pigs alive outside the body for up to 36 hours and allowing them to bring the organ up to a transplantable quality.

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Category: Medical

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• Columbia University
• Organ donation
• Vanderbilt University

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2PRey4B