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Stem cells used in trachea transplant

Published November 19, 2008, 6:32 pm, SpaceDaily

by Staff Writers Barcelona, Spain (UPI) Nov 19, 2008 The first successful human windpipe transplant using the patient's stem cells was completed in Spain, physicians at four European universities announced.

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BBC NEWS | Health | Windpipe transplant breakthrough: Surgeons in Spain have carried out the world's first tissue-enginee red whole organ transplant - using a windpipe made with the patient's own stem cells.

Woman given windpipe created in laboratory - CNN.com

Woman receives windpipe built from her stem cells: A Colombian woman has become the world's first recipient of windpipe tissue constructed from a combination of donated tissue and her own cells. Stem cells harvested from the woman's bone marrow were used to populate a stripped-down section of windpipe received from a donor, which was then transplanted into her body in June.

November 18th

Claudia Castillo gets windpipe tailor-made from her own stem cells - Times Online: Researchers and surgeons from Britain, Italy and Spain collaborated to grow tissue from Ms Castillo?s own bone marrow stem cells, using them to fashion the new bronchus ? a branch of the windpipe. They believe that one day the approach will be used to create engineered replacements for other damaged organs, such as the bowel or bladder. In five years they hope to begin clinical trials in which laboratory-mad e voice boxes are implanted into patients with cancer of the larynx