Friday, March 19, 2010

Surgeons perform revolutionary transplant operation

Source: University College London
Date: 19 March 2010

Summary:

University College London scientists and surgeons have led a revolutionary operation to transplant a new trachea into a child and use the child's own stem cells to rebuild the airway in the body. The operation - a world first - involved laboratory-based scientists and hospital-based clinicians working in partnership with colleagues in Europe to treat a 10-year-old British boy.