Gene-patching damaged lungs for transplanting
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 13:21
in Health & Medicine
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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