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Jul 7, 2011

Surgeons Perform the World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant

For the first time in history, a patient has been implanted with a synthetic windpipe that was created using the patient's stem cells and a replica of his original windpipe. It's amazing even though it kinda looks like PVC piping

It's the future of medical science: there's no donor needed and no depressingly long wait times. Scientists from London created the replica using 3D scans of the 36-year-old patient. The material was made from polymers with a spongy and flexible texture with stiff rings around the tube to recreate a more human-like trachea. They coated and soaked the trachea model in a solution of stem cell's taken from the patient's bone marrow and after two days, the patient's own tissues had grown to cover replica. 

According to the Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a professor at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm that performed the surgery, said the "stem cells from the own patient were growing inside and outside. This structure was becoming a living structure." It's been a month since the surgery and the patient's body has accepted the synthetic organ and he should be released soon. The doctors hope that it can lead to more artificial organs for future transplants. Not cloning!
 
 

15 comments:

Funny Pets said...

Modern science is getting so advance!

GMSoccerPicks said...

Thats great news, any technology that improves quality of life or improves a medical procedure, is big news. thanks for sharing.

Roysizzle said...

wwooooaaaahhhh siiccckkk.

Zombie said...

Repo men anyone?

Anonymous said...

Wow, that's amazing! I'd like to see what they do next.

Guy Movie Blogger said...

@ Zombie: first thing that came to my mind!

Crazy stuff. Only twenty years ago this kind of thing would have sounded like something out of a sci fi movie.

Miguel Sanchez said...

Science is so advanced now, I wonder what they're going to do next?

Alunith said...

I wonder what the next step will be :)

BigOryx said...

i think thats good news

Anonymous said...

Hope they can create new lungs for me in the future...gotta quit smoking!

DIYgaming said...

That's really amazing!!

Mark said...

I had heard about this but not read about it properly, I think it really is amazing, and proves we should have done stem cell research, this is absolutely amazing, and it'll be good if one day they could take it even further, but I'm not too much a fan of living longer lol. There's such a thing as a right time to die.

Jon said...

pretty amazing, will be building new bodies soon

Shaw said...

I sure hope these medical advancements are made in time to help me when I'm old

Anonymous said...

Wow! i am really amazed! That is so cool!

Medical science is really getting pretty advanced, cool!

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