Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells (AP)

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Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells
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<p>You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginAP - Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.</p><br clear="all"/>


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