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Gene therapy could facilitate lung transplants
A new gene therapy procedure to restore function in lungs damaged during harvesting from donors could make more lungs available for transplanting, Canadian researchers said yesterday.
Currently, only about 15 percent of potential donor lungs are used because the rest are too damaged to implant. The new technique, which has not been tested in humans, could prevent that damage or even reverse...
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