SCIENCE IN THE NEWS DAILY
Doctors Transplant Synthetic Windpipe in Maryland Man
from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Surgeons in Sweden have replaced the cancerous windpipe of a Maryland man with one fabricated in a laboratory and seeded with his own cells.
The windpipe, or trachea, made from minuscule plastic fibers and covered in stem cells taken from the man's bone marrow, was transplanted successfully in November. The patient, Christopher Lyles, 30, who had a type of tracheal cancer normally considered inoperable, arrived Wednesday back home in Baltimore. It was the second procedure of its kind, and the first in an American.
"He went home in very good shape," said Paolo Macchiarini, director of the Advanced Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Read more...
Science in the Media
Newspapers:
Magazines and Web Sites:
The Science-Media Intersection:
Subscribe to Our Content!
Visit our RSS Feeds page to choose among 13 customized feeds, or create a free My AmSci account to request an email notice whenever a specified author, department or discipline appears online.