These encouraging results helped the team move toward their first human trial. After losing part of her trachea to thyroid cancer, a 50-year-old woman treated at Seoul St Mary’s Hospital became ...

Warren has had a few complications but is recovering well, according to the NYT. The scaffold and bioreactor in which the synthetic trachea was cultured with stem cells taken from bone marrow was ...

Professor Macchiarini and his team have been working in this field for many years, and have been developing a means of replacing the trachea ... properties of a human windpipe as closely ...