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<div style="text-align:left">Researchers at <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/HarvardUniversity/">Harvard University</a> have successfully created a functioning, respirating human 'lung' on a chip in a lab. Made using human and blood vessel cells and a microchip, the translucent lung is far simpler in terms of observation than traditional, actual human lungs (for obvious reasons), in a small convenient package about the size of a pencil eraser. The researchers have demonstrated its effectiveness and are now moving toward showing its ability to replicate gas exchange between lung cells and the bloodstream. Down the road a bit more, the team hopes to produce other organs on chips, and hook them all up to the already operational <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/heart/">heart</a> on a chip. And somewhere in the world, Margaret Atwood and her pigoons are rejoicing, right? Here's to <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/thefuture/">the future</a>. Video description of the device is below.</div><p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/researchers-create-functioning-human-lung-on-a-microchip/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Researchers create functioning human lung on a microchip</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both"><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/researchers-create-functioning-human-lung-on-a-microchip/">Researchers create functioning human lung on a microchip</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.engadget.com">Engadget</a> on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:42:00 EDT. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0"></h6><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/researchers-create-functioning-human-lung-on-a-microchip/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> <img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_VIA.gif" alt=""><span><a href="http://www.gizmag.com/living-lung-on-a-chip/15530/">Gizmag</a>, <a href="http://www.switched.com/2010/06/25/lung-on-a-chip-capable-of-accurately-replicating-natural-lung/">Switched</a></span> | <img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_source.gif" alt="source"><span><a href="http://hms.harvard.edu/public/news/2010/062410_ingber/">Harvard University</a></span> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/19533385/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/researchers-create-functioning-human-lung-on-a-microchip/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>