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Pig power may aid defective lungs – The Australian

Donated human lungs that would normally be rejected as too damaged for transplants could be repaired by attaching them to pigs, a study suggests.

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Donated human lungs that would normally be rejected as too damaged for transplants could be repaired by attaching them to pigs, a study suggests.
About 80 per cent of lungs offered for transplants are not suitable, often because of injuries suffered during the last stages of a donor’s life, but frequently the damage is relatively minor and could heal if the lungs were in a living person….

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