An Unexpected New Lung Function Has Been Found – They Make Blood

 Fascinating...

http://www.sciencealert.com/an-unexpected-new-lung-function-has-been-discovered-and-it-could-disrupt-decades-of-scientific-thought?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded%20Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePage

The researchers wanted to investigate if their discovery could have an effect on how we treat disorders such as lung inflammation, bleeding, and transplantation in the future, by transplanting lungs with fluorescent megakaryocyte progenitor cells into mice with low platelet counts.
The transplants produced a massive burst of platelets that quickly restored the depleted platelet counts to normal levels, and the effect lasted for several months.
Another experiment tested what would happen if the bone marrow wasn't playing a role in blood production.
The team implanted lungs with fluorescent megakaryocyte progenitor cells into mice that had been engineered to have no blood stem cells in their bone marrow.

So how did we miss such a crucial biological process this whole time? Time to rewrite the text books and above all ladies and gentlemen...Take deep breaths :)