An-Najah News - The sad reality of terminal lung illnesses is that there are simply far more patients than there are donor lungs available but some donors lungs are already damaged but with a new experimental technique,damaged lung has now been restored to function  by sharing its circulatory system with that of a living pig. 

This leverages the body's self-repair mechanisms to exceed the capabilities of current donor lung restoration techniques.

 The lead researcher, surgeon Ahmed Hozain and biomedical engineer John O'Neill of Columbia University siad "It is the provision of intrinsic biological repair mechanisms over long-enough periods of time that enabled us to recover severely damaged lungs that cannot otherwise be saved'.

It's not quite ready for clinical use, though. For one, the pigs could share things other than their blood like disease.

Because of this, any clinical use of the technique would require medical-grade animals, which would not be cheap.