Humans can’t survive without taking a breath. And the lungs are the pneumatic engines that take in oxygen to be distributed ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

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