When pig blood is cross-circulated, it’s critical to understand how much of that blood—and components of the pig immune system present within it—is getting into the human lung or sticking to ...

Human lung that failed on EVLP (left) and then recovered on cross-circulation (right). Ahmed Hozain and John O'Neill/Co Swine may breathe new life into transplant waitlists, scientists have found ...

The team successfully transplanted four pig lungs into four pig recipients, which were kept alive for 10 hours, two weeks, one month, and two months after surgery.

Human lungs that are too damaged for transplant can be 'fixed' by hooking them up to a live PIG for 24 hours, study finds. Only one in five lungs from donors are deemed fit enough to be transplanted ...

The pig performs as a natural bioreactor to allow repair of the donated lungs. “All of a sudden, [the lungs are] attached to a functioning liver, a functioning gut.

Previous attempts to combine unmodified pig lungs and human blood ended abruptly two years ago when blood clots began forming almost immediately, causing the organs to become so blocked no blood could ...

A bio-engineered pig lung inside an incubator at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Researchers figured out how to grow lungs in a lab and transplant the organs into pigs.

You're working on xenotransplantation, the moving of organs of one species into another. In this case, it's transplanting pig lungs into human patients. Why? I got into biotechnology because our ...

Genome pioneer J. Craig Venter is teaming up with a unit of United Therapeutics Corp to develop pig lungs that have been genetically altered to be compatible with humans, a feat that, if ...

Researchers have managed to keep pig lungs alive outside the body for 36 hours at a time, repairing damage and making them viable for transplantation. Columbia Engineering. 2 / 4.

Last year, more than 2,500 people received donor lungs in the United States. Many more are in need: at the time of publication, more than 1,400 people sit on the official waiting list to receive ...

Researchers have successfully transplanted bioengineered lungs into adult pigs, the University of Texas has announced. The work, which was recently detailed in a study published by Science ...