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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Paolo Macchiarini of the University of Barcelona and his collaborators stripped the living cells from a donor's trachea and seeded the


tissue scaffolding with stem cells taken from the recipient's bone marrow. The engineered trachea (pictured) was therefore compatible with the recipient's immune system, lowering


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