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19.11.08 # 7:24Visited 33 times, 1 so far today# Health # No Comment
PARIS: President-elect Barack Obama may reverse the Bush Administration’s restrictions on stem cell research, which has been contentious in some European countries, too.
According to an article in the British medical journal The Lancet, physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s own stem cells to fashion an organ.
At the same time prevent its rejection by her immune system, One of the physicians said the surgery could herald a “new age in surgical care.”
Ms. Castillo, 30, was hospitalized in March with her windpipe so badly damaged by tuberculosis that she was unable to walk more than a few steps at a time, according to a statement from Bristol University.
Anthony Hollander, a professor at Bristol University, said ethical concerns relating to embryonic stem cell research had not surfaced in the latest procedure because it had used only the patient’s own stem cells.
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