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The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.
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Rachel Fieldhouse
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Rachel Fieldhouse is a reporter for Nature in Sydney, Australia.
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A 33-year-old man survived for 48 hours without his lungs, after a medical team replaced the organs with an external artificial-lung system1 that it developed to keep him alive until he could receive a double lung transplant.
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Nature 650, 284 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00239-y
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