Successful Stem Cell Replacement of Windpipe

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @08:59AM from the difficult-to-gasp dept.

thepacketmaster writes "In what is being hailed as a medical milestone, CNN reports a woman suffering from long-term tuberculosis had her lower trachea and bronchial tube replaced by tissue grown from her own stem cells. A team from the universities of Barcelona, Spain; Bristol, England; and Padua and Milan, Italy, decided to go ahead with the surgery instead of having to remove her left lung. The operation, reported Wednesday in the British medical journal The Lancet, has been hailed as a major leap for medicine that could offer new hope for patients suffering from serious illness."

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Thanks for the definition by TRex1993 · 2008-11-19 10:25 · Score: 1, Flamebait

My favorite part of the article is where CNN felt like they had to define what the trachea was. Do people reading the news really not know what a trachea is? That's like telling people that Africa is a continent.
What? Oh. Never mind.