Custom machine kept man alive without lungs for 48 hours

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...
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Breathing Lung-on-a-Chip from One Human Donor Advances Personalized Medicine

Air sacs in the lungs called alveoli are crucial for gas exchange and provide an important barrier against inhaled viruses and bacteria that cause respiratory diseases like flu and tuberculosis (TB).
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Scientists build first breathing ‘lung-on-chip’ model using only one person’s cells

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, a breathing lung model has been made using cells from only one person. Announced on January 1, the development ...
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First breathing 'lung-on-chip' developed using genetically identical cells

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human lung-on-chip model using stem cells taken from only one person. These chips simulate breathing motions and lung ...
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Human mini-lungs mimic animal response to nanomaterials

Human mini-lungs grown by University of Manchester scientists can mimic the response of animals when exposed to certain nanomaterials. The study at the University’s NanoCell Biology Lab at the Centre ...
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Lab-grown 'mini-lungs' reveal COVID’s impact on our lungs—and potential paths to treatments

Though we’ve now been living with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, for close to five years, many aspects of its biology and pathology remain mysterious. This is not helped by the fact that ...