Doctors Transplant Stem Cell Windpipe

Now here is a great new happening where stem cells are concerned. This woman needed a donor windpipe. They found one in Italy and the doctors there stripped it of all its cells. This left only a tube of connective tissue. So the doctors in Bristol, England, took a sample of the bone marrow from the woman's hip. They used this bone marrow's stem cells to create millions of cartilage and tissue cells to cover and line the windpipe. Then they were able to transplant the windpipe into the woman in June. By using her own stem cells, she will not need the drugs to keep her body from rejecting the new windpipe. I feel this is amazing and it shows that we don't need to grow embryos (which are little babies) and kill them for the stem cells. I heard too they can get stem cells for you right from your arms. This is the right way to go.