Voicebox Implant

Earlier this year, surgeons in Sweden successfully implanted a trachea that was taken from a cadaver and “regrown” with a patient’s stem cells.  But more recently, bioengineers in southern Russia created a nanocomposite trachea scaffold and seeded it with a patient’s bone marrow stem cells, using a rotation device in a box.  Apparently, this is the world’s first synthetic trachea.  MORE

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