Toddler’s death prompts reflection on bioengineered tissue transplants
There was sad news over the weekend that the youngest patient to ever receive a bioengineered trachea seeded with her own bone marrow–derived stem cells had died. Hannah Warren, who was born without a windpipe, received the artificial trachea at Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria in April. It was only the sixth procedure of its kind and the first to be performed in the US. She would have turned three next month. Read more