A Baltimore man became only the second patient to receive a completely synthetic trachea, to replace one ravaged by cancer. Swedish surgeons, led by Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, director of the Advanced ...

Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths around the world, and is often not diagnosed until it is in late stages that are frequently untreatable. Scientists have used a mouse model to identify ...

Scientists have created tiny moving biological robots from human tracheal cells that can encourage the growth of neurons across artificial 'wounds' in the lab. Using patients' own cells could permit ...

People who need new organs can take hope after a Colombian woman underwent a successful transplant of a new windpipe grown from her own stem cells. Spanish, British and Italian scientists invented the ...

A Belgian woman has a working windpipe after surgeons implanted the trachea from a dead man into her arm, where it grew new blood vessels before being transplanted into her throat. For more than 2½ ...

Although we often regard our own bodies and those of the other multicellular organisms around us as a singular entity, each cell that makes up our body is its own, nano-robot. One long-existing ...

The 'cell of origin' of the second most common lung cancer and the way that it becomes dominant in the lung have been discovered, in a new study in mice and humans from researchers at UCL, the ...

Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have created tiny biological robots that they call Anthrobots from human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and have ...