Bioengineered Lungs Transplanted into Pigs
October 30, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston) have shown that they could, in pigs, decellularize a donor pig’s lung, use it as a scaffold, seed it with cells (presumably lung stem cells) and then grow a functioning organ in a bioreactor over a month’s time. Once transplanted, the cultured lung showed no signs of pulmonary edema, and provided full oxygen saturation (along with one natural lung remaining) for the recipient animals. MORE
Image Credit: University of Texas Medical Branch