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Rats Breathe Air From Lungs Grown In the Lab
cremeglace writes "'For the first time, an animal has drawn a breath with lungs cultivated in the lab.' Although preliminary, the results might eventually lead to replacement lungs for patients. Researchers at Yale University have successfully applied a technique called decellularization that involves using detergent to remove all of the cells from an organ, leaving a scaffold consisting of the fibrous material between cells."
This is a wonderful age to be a mouse/rat.
Biotech is amazing!
Feeling like you're gonna die?
Feeling like you can't take another breath?
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Rats with erections - Does that involve using them as a bottle opener?
Life is not for the lazy.
"the results might eventually lead to replacement lungs for patients"
I won't hold my breath for it!
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Now all those rats used in the smoking studies will be able to get new lungs! Hooray!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Dude, I think the nuggets were already dead before you put them in the pan....