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Child Receives Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-add-oxygen dept.

kkleiner writes "Doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) along with colleagues at the University College London, the Royal Free Hospital, and Careggi University Hospital in Florence have successfully transplanted a trachea into a 10 year old boy using his own stem cells. A donor trachea was taken, stripped of its cells into a collagen-like scaffold, and then infused with the boy's stem cells. The trachea was surgically placed into the boy and allowed to develop in place. Because his own cells were used, there was little to no risk of rejection. This was the first time a child had received such a stem cell augmented transplant and the first time that a complete trachea had been used."

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  1. Re:In the immortal words of Peter Griffin... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because deluded fools think Space is where it's at. Even though we've had decades to work in space, nothing's come of it. Because, well, space is EMPTY.

    However, because we live in a very conservative time, and people are basically stupid, they think it's "playing God" when we grow tissue like this.

    Of course, industrialized farming, suburbs, antibiotics, giving birth in hospitals and medicine in general aren't "playing God".

    The other issue is that just around the corner will be life extension technology, and that's where people's built-in deathoid prejudices really come out. Even though we live longer than ever and healthier too, somehow living even longer is bad.

    Weird. As soon as I can I'd grow my own replacement organs and slap those babies in there. As a matter of fact, I'd love to keep tissue samples of my present organs on ice so I can pop those babies in a reactor, in case there's something unforeseen with stem cells.

  2. take that, sexconker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    8==C=O=C=K=S=L=A=P==D~~

  3. TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Common know7edge distribution make shower Don't just Fuck The Baby

  4. Re:In the immortal words of Peter Griffin... by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Troll

    We never stopped funding it. We weren't funding research based on the stem cells from dead human embryos.

    I know you weren't interested in the answer, but I wanted to point out your douchebaggery.

    LK

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