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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Girl Receives Engineered Trachea Treated With Her Own Stem Cells

Girl Receives Engineered Trachea Treated With Her Own Stem Cells | Singularity Hub: "In a medical breakthrough, South Korean doctors have successfully implanted an artificial trachea into a toddler who had been born without the windpipe. The artificial trachea, one of only a few ever to be implanted, had been coated with the toddler’s own stem cells. After living the first two-and-a-half years of her life in intensive care, Hannah Warren will soon be able to go home with her parents."

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