January 22nd, 2012 
Buzzy Surgeons in Sweden replaced an American patient’s cancerous windpipe with a scaffold built from nanofibers and seeded with the patient’s stem cells. Lead surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini discusses the procedure and the benefits of tissue-engineered synthetic organs.
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