British scientists have successfully implanted lung tissue cells from mouse embryonic stem cells in mouse lungs. In the future, they have developed a method of cell therapy lung diseases can be used to treat people.

So far, most of the applications in the study of stem cells was aimed at identifying opportunities for their use in treating diseases such as diabetes or Parkinson's disease, while cell therapy respiratory disease has received insufficient attention. One reason for this - a very complex structure of lung tissue.

This work - a big step forward, although clinical trials before the method will be more than one year. But the main thing - Scientists have determined that embryonic stem cells can indeed inhabits and rebuild the damaged lung tissue.

In the experiment, the results of which was the report at the annual congress European Respiratory Society, cells injected mice with tail vein. Two days after that transplanted cells migrated into the lungs, and in other bodies are not found.

If these experiments could be repeated with human embryonic stem cells, the proposed method of treatment can become an alternative to lung transplantation, which currently applies in the case of heavy damage to lung tissue caused by disease or injury.

But scientists believe that a great deal of work remains, in particular, to obtain three-dimensional tissue bioengineering light with a characteristic for that cell and tissue structure of the composition.