Word: macchiarini
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...Doctors tend not to recommend trachea transplants because the windpipe is one of the body's organs most prone to rejection. But because of Sánchez's unique situation - she was young and had a rare kind of tracheal damage - Spanish medical authorities granted special permission to Macchiarini and his team to go ahead with an experimental treatment...
...very important demonstration that if different branches of science put together their forces, they can help people," says Professor Paolo Macchiarini, principle author of the study and head of thoracic surgery at Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, where the surgery was performed...
...developing automatic processes, rather than the labor-intensive techniques applied this time, for generating tissue from the patient's own stem cells. Once scientists are able to engineer similar transformations of other organs to save lives and spare the side effects of immunosuppressive drugs, "This would be beautiful," says Macchiarini...
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