How lab-grown ‘lungs’ are helping fight infectious diseases

What if scientists could build a realistic model of the human lung, not full-sized, but grown in the lab from living cells? Why would they do this? VIDO scientists based at the University of Saskatchewan have been exploring exactly that, and their work shows that these small, 3D structures referred to as “organoids” behave much like real lungs, giving scientists a powerful new way to study how viruses infect us.

This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

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