Groundbreaking Surgery for Girl Born Without Windpipe

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 05:10 in Health & Medicine

Doctors have built an implanted a windpipe, developed with plastic fibers and human cells, in a 2 ½-year-old girl — the youngest person ever to receive a bioengineered organ.

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