It was revealed on Wednesday that Spanish doctors successfully performed the transplant of human windpipe with the use of stem cells.
The operation, performed in June, was the first of its kind and was done on a 30-year-old woman originally from Colombia. Though the controversy around stem cell research centers on embryonic cells, doctors took adult stem cells from the bone marrow of the patient.
Al Jazeera English has more information on the pioneering medical procedure:
Sources- Catholic Online, BBC News, NPR, YouTube
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