Transplant

24/11/2011 - Student gets artificial windpipe
A geology student from Eritrea has become the latest beneficiary of dramatic advances in windpipe transplant techniques, it was revealed today. More

15/09/2011 - Mammoth transfusion hope
Researchers are using the DNA of extinct woolly mammoths to design a powerful new kind of artificial blood, it was revealed last night. More

08/07/2011 - Synthetic transplant hailed as first
A 36-year-old man is due to leave a Swedish hospital today after a revolutionary windpipe operation. More

22/03/2010 - Child gets home-grown windpipe transplant
British surgeons have performed a revolutionary windpipe transplant procedure on a child for the first time, it has been announced. More

03/08/2009 - Private organ transplants face ban
Private transplant operations are set to be banned in Britain as part of a series of measures to ensure patients get "fair" access to donated organs. More

20/11/2008 - Bristol lab helped grow Claudia's new windpipe
British scientists have been talking about their part in creating the first transplant organ created from a patient's own cells. More

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