Rats Breathe Air From Lungs Grown In the Lab 112
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."
Lucky Rats (Score:4, Funny)
This is a wonderful age to be a mouse/rat.
Biotech is amazing!
Re:Lucky Rats (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Lucky Rats (Score:2, Funny)
No kidding.
Now Smoking can be cool again!
Enter and Win! (Score:5, Funny)
Feeling like you're gonna die?
Feeling like you can't take another breath?
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Just send in one Marlboro proof of purchase today!
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Re:Lucky Rats (Score:1, Funny)
Time to reimagine TFA's title:
Lawyers Suck Life from Living Tissue (in a lab).
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Turning Blue (Score:2, Funny)
"the results might eventually lead to replacement lungs for patients"
I won't hold my breath for it!
Good News for Rats! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next Step (Score:2, Funny)
Dude, I think the nuggets were already dead before you put them in the pan....