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High-Tech Transplant

  • May 16, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Italian surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini made history in 2008, when he transplanted a trachea grown from the patient’s own cells. This technology, known as regenerative medicine, could help create a future where we don’t need organ donors and the risk of rejection won’t exist.

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