New lungs grown in a lab — cure for COPD someday?

An interesting and slightly bizarre story last week (behind a bit on this one, meant to post about it, then forgot). Scientists, using stem cells, successfully grew a pair of human lungs, using one “stripped down” lung of collagen as a “scaffold.” They then painted the scaffold with cells from another lung (these lungs were … Continue reading New lungs grown in a lab — cure for COPD someday?