Tissue engineering triumph: Doctors transplant a trachea made from the patient's own stem cells

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The medical journal Lancet has just announced that doctors have performed the first successful trachea transplant using a trachea crafted from the patient's own stem cells. The New York Times is hailing this as a revolutionary step in regenerative medicine. The surgery took place in Barcelona this past June. Researchers from universities in Spain, Britain and Italy collaborated on the preparation. The patient's original trachea--actually one of her bronchi--had been damaged by severe tuberculosis.

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Final OK for California Stem Cell Institute

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Two-and-a-half years after California's Proposition 71 authorized public funding for stem cell research, the state's Supreme Court has removed the final obstacle to issuing $3 billion in bonds. At a press conference following the ruling, real estate financier Robert Klein, the chief author of the initiative, exulted that CIRM "has lift-off today. ... The future for the next decade is assured for California and for medical research on the stem cell frontier."

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