Man is recovering after getting lab grown organ implanted to replace cancerous trachea

[Stinky The Clown]

The essence if the story is this: The young man had a cancerous trachea. In Sweden, they are at the brink of perfecting an organ regeneration process using the patient's own stem cells, thereby eliminating rejection issues.

They built a plastic armature - a model of the man's trachea, if you will - on which to grow the new organ. Using a liquid based on the man's stem cells, they poured it over the armature where it grows into a new trachea.

The man is now back home, recovering with all appearances of a complete recovery.

Amazing!

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/01/16/md-man-travels-to-sweden-for-life-changing-medical-procedure/

[ZombieHorde]

1. Holy fucking shit. That is truly awesome. nt

[AlecBGreen]

2. I wish I could rec your reply

cant say much more than what you already did.

[polly7]

3. That's pretty amazing.

I hope he continues to do well.

I read of one case earlier this year where the windpipe was created within weeks.

[aquart]

4. Wow.

[Zoeisright]

5. This - THIS - is just ONE reason why a repuke must never again

occupy the White House. Stem cell research has such incredible potential. Every time a repuke bastard is elected, more people will die. It's as simple as that.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. That's amazing.

I remember reading about a process of "washing" with detergent an existing donor organ. The idea is to use the donor organ as a scaffold to grow a spare compatible organ for someone in need.

Rejection will be a thing of the past.

[undergroundpanther]

7. hmm

If the trachea thing works..I wonder how long it will be until transgender guys can have a real penis? As if it were there from day 1. I know transmen are not even on the radar for such things,they focus on repairing biologically correctly born men.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I'm glad someone is doing this essential work...n/t

[Odin2005]

9. Awesome!

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Back in the early 2000 we were workig on this

then came the policy from DC about stem cells...

Good for him, but bad for science and research, bush took teams off that.

[DirkGently]

11. Wow.

[MADem]

12. I just LOVE these sorts of news stories! nt

[Stinky The Clown]

13. I do, too.

I wish we could find a way to shove this right up the right wingers' asses.

[stillwaiting]

14. We can individually in conversation with right wingers, and I will.

Just don't expect our leaders in Congress to do so.

You don't get to accurately label Republicans when your first priority is bipartisanship.

[Spike89]

16. Seriously, nothing gets up those asses

They'll just say that the same results could have come from adult stem cells (in spite of what may be true) or if forced to acknowlege the benefits of fetal stem cells, they'll fall back to the "kill a baby" shrillness. They only seem to get "cured" when they, their children, or their new trophy wife gets saved by the treatment. (OK, they might also decide it is OK if there turns out to be a huge profit or if they can use STEM cells to get an erection).

[malaise]

15. Fabulous

This is great news