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Europeans Announce Pioneering Surgery

Published November 20, 2008, 10:25 am, The Hendersonville Times-News

Physicians transplanted a human windpipe, using stem cells from the recipients bone marrow to reline a donor trachea and prevent its rejection by her immune system.

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