Seriously, ignore the second part of the title! But yeah, a recent experiment seems to have been successfully completed.
Bio-engineered lungs have been successfully transplanted into pigs for the first time. How was that possible? Well:
- Take pig lungs. Strip lungs until you have a scaffold of protein.
- The scaffold was refilled with cells from the pig receiving the transplant. This was done to avoid conducting immune suppression procedures.
- Then the lungs were connected to the blood circulation of the receiver.
- The receiver was able to breathe normally.
Research hope to see this soon in human applications. The very brief summary of it is in the video below, courtesy of NewScientist.
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full steem ahead!
I'm glad you share the same enthusiasm as I do about this :D Thanks for the feedback.
Holy shit! This is quite the breakthrough man! I am really surprised that the video was so short - for something like this we need a whole segment....
I was also wondering what type of cells were used to fill the 'scaffolding' the second time around. Stem cells ( for regeneration) or normal lung cells of the second pig itself or some other cell?
Id guess normal lung cells