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NEWS ABOUT: trachea

trachea stories: 1 news summaries

 Mom Gets 
 Trachea 
 Grown From 
 Own Stem Cells 

Organ grown with patient's stem cells

Nov 19, 08 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 Spain in June, reports the... More »

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surgery • stem cells • bone marrow • transplant • University of Bristol • collagen • trachea • Claudia Castillo • University of Padua • Polytechnic of Milan • Paolo Macchiarini • Hospital Clínic of Barcelona

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