Comments on: How to Build a Working Rat Lung in a Lab http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/06/25/how-to-build-a-working-rat-lung-in-a-lab/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eliza Strickland http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/06/25/how-to-build-a-working-rat-lung-in-a-lab/comment-page-1/#comment-205115 Eliza Strickland Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:33:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=16643#comment-205115 Gretchen: Thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of the U of Minnesota experiment. It is indeed interesting and impressive. But the Yale U researchers did take the work a step further. While the Minnesota researchers created a lung that "breathed" in a bioreactor, the Yale scientists transplanted their recreated lung back into a rat, and saw it function. Cheers, Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor Gretchen:

Thanks for the link, I hadn’t heard of the U of Minnesota experiment. It is indeed interesting and impressive. But the Yale U researchers did take the work a step further. While the Minnesota researchers created a lung that “breathed” in a bioreactor, the Yale scientists transplanted their recreated lung back into a rat, and saw it function.

Cheers,
Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor

]]> By: Gretchen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/06/25/how-to-build-a-working-rat-lung-in-a-lab/comment-page-1/#comment-202673 Gretchen Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:21:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=16643#comment-202673 At the University of Minnesota Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortar and Andrew Price took stem cells from another rat, at least according to http://www.startribune.com/local/97124689.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU and added them to a scaffold creating working lungs (albeit with the help of an incubator). Give these researchers some credit, this is big stem cell news for the U of M, and their experiment went above and beyond this Yale study. Stem cell applications are closer than this article suggests. At the University of Minnesota Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortar and Andrew Price took stem cells from another rat, at least according to http://www.startribune.com/local/97124689.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU and added them to a scaffold creating working lungs (albeit with the help of an incubator).

Give these researchers some credit, this is big stem cell news for the U of M, and their experiment went above and beyond this Yale study. Stem cell applications are closer than this article suggests.

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