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 ...

Pushing the field of regenerative medicine one step further, researchers led by Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, professor of regenerative medicine at Karolinska Institute, have succeed in re-creating one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before scientists develop the bioengineered tissue of tomorrow for treating pulmonary diseases, they need to identify the best methods for growing tissue for artificial trachea and lungs in ...

Two years after the procedure, researchers see signs of success. July 26, 2012— -- The first child in history to receive a trachea fashioned by his own stem cells has shown remarkable progress ...