Toddler Gets Windpipe Grown From Her Own Stem Cells

An adorable two year-old has a new lease on life thanks to pioneering doctors, a charitable Catholic hospital and her own stem cells. Little Hannah Warren was born without a trachea, the passageway that leads to the lungs. Although a tube was inserted from her esophagus to her lungs to help her breath, doctors told her parents that she would likely die.Hannah is now recovering from a trachea transplant. The trachea was made from a plastic scaffold and stem cells taken from her bone marrow. Continue reading at LifeNews >>
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Stem cells, Adult Source Type: blogs