Woman receives tailor-made trachea without need for anti-rejection drugs

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 20:28 in Psychology & Sociology

A Colombian woman has received the world's first tailor-made transplanted trachea, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international research team reported on Wednesday.

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