Regenerative Medicine Pioneer Continues Changing Lives With First Successful Laryngotracheal Implants

And they look like bacon!   (HT: DG)

Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is no stranger to world firsts, and less than a year after performing a synthetic windpipe transplant, the Karolinska Institute Professor has coordinated no less than two successful transplants of synthetic sections of larynx. Amazingly, both patients were able to breathe and talk normally straight after surgery, the basic functions we take for granted that they either struggled with or were simply unable to do before.

So smoke ‘em if you got ‘em; science will have you covered.

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