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00:42 External, artificial-lung system keeps patient alive for transplant

Nature: 48 hours without lungs: artificial organ kept man alive until transplant

06:22 How lung cancer in mice hijacks neurons to outwit the immune system

Nature: How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells

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