Making a trachea from scratch

Friday, July 8, 2011 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

The procedure — an implant made for Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene — marks another step forward for the field of regenerative medicine.Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene left a Stockholm hospital Friday, breathing through a manufactured trachea that was built with his own stem cells.

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