They’re getting really close now, this is exciting stuff. Growing lungs in a lab: researchers move closer to goal Now two research groups have made major strides in attacking the problem. One has successfully engineered a lung that can sustain a living rat and the other has created a lung-mimicking device for toxicology studies that [...]
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