Saturday 22 November 2008

Surgeons create and transplant new lung part from patient's own stem cells

They took an airway from a dead donor, stripped away the cells that cause rejection, then replaced those cells with stem cells from her hip, lung and nose to create the different types of cells like cartilage in the body part. No chance of rejection and the operation was successful. They want to create a larynx within 5 years.

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