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How to use a live pig to revitalize a human lung

Unusual method could increase the supply of lungs available for transplantation.
Human lungs under a dome, surrounded by computer screens and medical equipment, in front of shape covered in blue sheet.

Human lungs can be reconditioned for transplant by connecting them to a living pig (under blue sheet). Credit: A. E. Hozain et al./Nature Med.

Damaged human lungs could be rejuvenated to allow for transplant into people if the organs were hooked up to a pig’s circulatory system.

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Nature 583, 495 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02080-3

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