Cancer patient recieves first fully synthetic organ transplant

Researchers announced yesterday that for the first time, a patient has received a synthetic windpipe that was created in a lab with the patient's own stem cells and without using human donor tissue. On June 9, doctors implanted the synthetic trachea into a 36-year-old man with late-stage tracheal cancer at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. … Continue reading Cancer patient recieves first fully synthetic organ transplant