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Mom Gets Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells

Organ grown with patient's stem cells

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 19, 2008 4:49 AM CST

(Newser) – In a frontier-busting surgery, transplant doctors have given a young woman a trachea developed in a lab using the patient's own stem cells. Stem cells from the patient's trachea and bone marrow were used to create a new rejection-proof organ in the surgery, performed in...   Read full story »

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