Video: New Approach Shows Regeneration of Severely Damaged Lungs (VIDEO)

Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Columbia Engineering and Vanderbilt researchers are first to demonstrate in a clinically relevant model that severely damaged lungs can be regenerated to meet transplantation criteria; findings could lead to increase in the number of lungs for transplant.

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Brandon Guenthart/Columbia Engineering

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For use in conjunction with stories about the Nature Communcations paper "Recovery of severely damaged lungs using an interventional cross-circulation platform."

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