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Old 01-12-2012, 01:30 PM
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Default Synthetic Windpipe Successfully Transplanted in American Man

Surgeons in Sweden have replaced the cancerous windpipe of a Maryland man with one fabricated in a laboratory and seeded with his own cells.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/he...er=rss&emc=rss

Dr. Macchiarini said that the cells are continuing to grow and differentiate now that the windpipe is implanted. “We’re using the human body as a bioreactor to promote regeneration,” he said.
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