Sentences with phrase «human lung transplant»

The world's first human lung transplant was completed here in 1963 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

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If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.

In this study, human lung cancer cells with additional copies of the opioid receptor grew more than twice as fast as tumor cells that lacked extra receptors when transplanted into mice.

One study presented in the journal — from a group led by Patrick Singleton, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine — shows how opioids already present in the body can enhance the malignant tendencies of human lung cancer cells transplanted into mice, even without the addition of morphine.