Woman gets first trachea transplant without drugs
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 19:56
in Psychology & Sociology
LONDON (Reuters) - A Colombian woman has received the world's first tailor-made trachea transplant, 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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