Woman given windpipe created in laboratory

Courtesy CNN.com - Health  Wed, 11/19/2008 - 6:40am

Medical experts hailed a "milestone in medicine" Wednesday as they announced the successful transplant of a human windpipe engineered with the patient's own stem cells.



 

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