Cancer patient receives first synthetic organ transplant

From: the Guardian

 A man was 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. Prof Seifalian said: "What makes this procedure different is it's the first time that a wholly tissue-engineered synthetic windpipe has been made and successfully transplanted, making it an important milestone for regenerative medicine. We expect there to be many more exciting applications for the novel polymers we have developed."

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