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Incredible Medical Advance

Incredible Medical Advance

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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