Gene-patching damaged lungs for transplanting

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 10/28/2009 - 15:13

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy....


 

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