July 12, 2011
In a "wow, they can do that?" moment, a Swedish cancer patient was given a trachea transplant using completely lab-created materials. Doctors built a scaffold model of the patient's trachea, and covered it in the patient's own stem cells, which grew a new trachea. The organ was inserted into the patient with no risk of organ rejection as the cells all belonged to the patient ...


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Krustifer commented…
I'm pretty sure this was on Grey's Anatomy once.
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