{"id":6396,"date":"2023-03-15T07:10:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2023-03-15T07:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:11:04","slug":"what-the-first-lung-delivered-by-drone-means-for-transplant-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/03\/15\/what-the-first-lung-delivered-by-drone-means-for-transplant-science\/","title":{"rendered":"What the First Lung Delivered by Drone Means for Transplant Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6396\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>Scientists document a groundbreaking flight to deliver a lung for transplant<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/caren-chesler\/\">Caren Chesler<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0April 1, 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/magazine\/sa\/2023\/04-01\/\"><time>Scientific American April 2023 Issue<\/time><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As organ transplant science advances, its biggest hurdles are increasingly logistical ones\u2014such as securing a flight and navigating through traffic fast enough to deliver an organ before it deteriorates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enter the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/drones-sample-rare-specimens-from-cliffs-and-other-dangerous-places\/\">drone<\/a>, for which researchers recently documented a milestone test\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/full\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adf5798\">in\u00a0<em>Science Robotics<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0After hundreds of practice flights, their drone carried a human donor lung on a five-minute journey from the roof of Toronto Western Hospital to Toronto General Hospital for a successful transplant. The trip can take 25 minutes by road.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-the-first-lung-delivered-by-drone-means-for-transplant-science\/\">Read more in Scientific American.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6396\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Scientists document a groundbreaking flight to deliver a lung for transplant By\u00a0Caren Chesler\u00a0on\u00a0April 1, 2023 Scientific American April 2023 Issue As organ transplant science advances, its biggest hurdles are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/03\/15\/what-the-first-lung-delivered-by-drone-means-for-transplant-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What the First Lung Delivered by Drone Means for Transplant Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":6397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8],"tags":[1742],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1164","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6398,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions\/6398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}