Christopher Lyles, Got Synthetic Trachea, Dies at 30

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 02:20 in Health & Medicine

In only the second surgery of its kind, Mr. Lyles’s cancerous windpipe was replaced in November with a synthetic one that had been seeded with his own cells.

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