" Spinning " a Solution for Tracheal Surgery
Joyce Laird
Innovative use of an old technology to solve a new challenge.Macchiarini performed the world ’s first transplant of a regenerated trachea in 2008. The patient is still alive today, more than five years later. Green explained that all of the other heart and lung regeneration work at that time was being done on animals. He saw this as a very strong incentive to expand into the regeneration of all types of hollow organs using bioreactive technology.read more
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