World's First Lab-Grown Organ Used in Transplant

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A 36-YEAR-OLD man is recovering after surgeons implanted the world's first wholly lab-grown organ into his body.

The synthetic trachea, or windpipe, was created by seeding the patient's own stem cells on to an artificial "scaffold".

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World's First Lab-Grown Organ Used in Transplant

British scientists helped design and build the structure, an exact rep...

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