Man given synthetic trachea created by growing his own stem cells on artificial ‘scaffold’
Surgeons have performed the first transplant operation using an organ wholly grown in a laboratory to give a man a new windpipe.
The 36-year-old is recovering after surgeons implanted the world’s first wholly lab-grown organ into his body.
The synthetic trachea was created by growing the patient’s own stem cells on an artificial “scaffold”, which British scientists helped design.
Windpipes have been grown from stem cells before, but only using the collagen “skeletons” of donated tracheas.
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This can be a big break through for many patients. For example, it could have cured my mother, if she had such a surgery early on. She died of thyroid cancer involving her trachea, last year. May Allah bless her soul!