POSTS TAGGED AS lung

Magnetic Catheters/Autonomous Endoscopy

Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy
“We [electrical engineers at the University of Leeds] design and manufacture a fully shape-forming, [MORE]

Simpler Method for Growing Lung Organoids

Human airway epithelial organoids
“We [at University of Freiburg] describe a simple method to generate organoid cultures using isolated human tracheobronchial [MORE]

Universal Type O Organs for Transplantation

Enzymatic treatment converts blood type A donor lungs into universal blood type lungs
“A major challenge in lung transplantation is the [MORE]

Lung Biopsy Robot

Auris Health Monarch robotic lung biopsy
Taking a lung biopsy is notoriously tricky, risking organ collapse.  Auris Health (Redwood City, CA) [MORE]

3D Printed Air Sacs Mimic Lungs

3D printed lung air sac
Using technology named “Stereolithographic Apparatus for Tissue Engineering” a Rice University lab has 3D-printed a life-like [MORE]

A Hair-Sized Lung Probe

Lung alveolus
In an extremely fine optical fiber, Scottish scientists devised a tool for assessing lung disease deep in the organ.  [MORE]

Wyss’ Organ-on-a-Chip for Modeling Influenza

Organ-on-a-Chip
It has been 99 years since the great influenza pandemic that killed many more people than had died in World [MORE]

A Self-Propelled Catheter

Robotic Bronchoscope
The conventional means for looking into lung’s airways is a camera-carrying bronchoscope with additional tools for taking a tissue [MORE]

Engineering a Breathing Lung

Bioengineering Using Functional Vascularized Lung Scaffold
Columbia University bioengineers have created the first functional lung (rodent) with perfusable and healthy vasculature.  [MORE]

A Further Report on Liquid Biopsy

Lungs Illustration from Smoke
Following up on last week’s Tagline story about liquid biopsies, this piece reports that researchers in Barcelona, [MORE]

3-D Printing Models Chest Cavity for Unusual Lung Transplant

Living Donor Lung Transplant – 3D Printing
In an astonishingly complicated procedure, surgeons at Kyoto University Hospital used a 3-D [MORE]

An Artificial Lung

Artificial Lung
This piece is mind-boggling.  Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have developed an artificial lung [MORE]

A Virtual Bronchoscope

Flexible Bronchoscope
Rigid bronchoscopy, which usually requires general anesthesia and some risk of damage to airways or vocal cords, can [MORE]

3-D Printing for Muscle Tissue

Novogenmxx
A San Diego company, Organovo, is using a modified form of 3-D printing to create human tissues—so far, heart [MORE]