A two-and-a-half-year-old girl is the youngest person to have received a bioengineered organ — a windpipe in this case — that was made from plastic fibers and human cells. The successful transplant of the synthetic windpipe on the girl, a Korean-Canadian named Hannah Warren, may give regenerative medicine a huge boost. The surgery, which took [...]
Cancer Patient Saved by Windpipe Made From Polymer and Other Materials
July 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last month, doctors switched out a cancer-stricken windpipe of a patient with a polymer-based organ made in a lab. The operation was a landmark achievement in regenerative medicine. Gautam Naik at The Wall Street Journal reported that the patient no longer has cancer and is expected to have a normal life expectancy. Naik wrote: The [...]
