Your lungs hold secrets about your health as you age – here's a simple test to check them

The condition of our lungs can reveal a great deal about our wider health. Luckily you can also get them into better shape.

3D Printed Lungs Made With Living Cells May Be Treatment ‘Game Changer’

The development could help scientists develop patient-specific treatments and one day offer a lab-grown lung transplant ...
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Researchers 3D-print lung tissue model to advance disease research

Researchers have developed a 3D-printed lung tissue model that could help scientists better study and treat diseases.
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First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant Marks Milestone in Xenotransplantation—But Surgeons Have Many More Questions

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...
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First pig-to-human lung transplant functions for nine days

The frontiers of xenotransplantation have been further extended with a pig-to-human lung transplant, the first time an organ that is directly exposed to the external environment – with the associated ...
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Scientists Perform World’s First Pig-To-Human Lung Transplant

Chinese scientists have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human recipient for the first time, which remained functional for nine days. The transplant represents the ...