Hannah Warren was born without a trachea but now has one made from plastic fibers and a stew of her own stem cells.
Paolo Macchiarini
Cancer Patient Receives a Man-Made Windpipe
Surgeons fashion stem cells from bone marrow into a functional trachea
Cancer Patient Gets World’s First Artificial Trachea
For the first time, a patient has been successfully transplanted with an artificial trachea, created from scratch in a lab. The procedure required the coordinated efforts of scientific teams in London, Massachusetts and …