I Think It's Going to Be a Big Splash Moving Forward

The technique can ablate the lung while sparing the trachea and esophagus. The other parts of the embryo weren't affected by this treatment. These mice survived into adulthood with lungs that were functionally indistinguishable from wild-type littermates. We're going to have to refine our culture conditions in human or other pluripotent stem cells if we want to be able to make comprehensively an entire organ, he says.