While transplants successful, experts say technique still not a proven therapy. Aug. 2, 2010— -- Doctors in Italy announced they have used patients' own stem cells to grow trachea tissue that led ...

The first tissue-engineered trachea (windpipe), utilizing the patient's own stem cells, has been successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway. The first tissue-engineered trachea ...

Surgeons in Sweden replaced an American patient's cancerous windpipe with a scaffold built from nanofibers and seeded with the patient's stem cells. Lead surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini discusses the ...

Biomedical engineers are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube structure-without relying on scaffolding strategies currently being ...

Historically, various materials have been investigated for their potential use as tracheal graft replacements. Preclinical studies evaluated solid prostheses (polyethylene, silicone, Teflon ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston report using tissue engineering to reconstruct defective tracheas (windpipes) in fetal lambs, first using cells from the amniotic fluid to grow sections of ...

Science fiction has come to life once again: Researchers have developed tiny biological robots, or biobots, that can heal brain cells, at least in a petri dish. In a study published Nov. 30 in ...

Doctors in Spain have implanted a new windpipe into a woman whose airway was badly damaged by tuberculosis. The pioneering operation used a section of windpipe engineered in a laboratory with adult ...

A new study reporting how a network of genes directs the development of the trachea and oesophagus in mice has been published today in eLife. The results provide new insight on the genes present ...