• 2 Year Old Girl Receives Lifesaving Windpipe Transplant.
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[QUOTE][QUOTE][IMG]http://timewellness.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ap254042838476-copy.jpg?w=360&h=240&crop=1[/IMG][/QUOTE] Hannah Warren was born without a trachea but now has one made from plastic fibers and a stew of her own stem cells. Source: [url]http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/30/young-girl-undergoes-successful-windpipe-transplant-from-her-stem-cells/[/url] [/QUOTE]
Thank you doctors and science for making this stem cell trachea possible for this small girl, I am very grateful for your selfless help in her time of need.
dude it's a 2 year old just use a bendy straw
It'd be interesting to find out just how many children's lives have been saved or made substantially better through fixing birth defects like this.
This is great, and expanding on it could lead to even greater things.
Who the hell calls it a windpipe anymore?
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;40493337]Who the hell calls it a windpipe anymore?[/QUOTE] I wasn't aware there was a standard surrounding this. Please, learn me the proper way of describing the tube that connects your throat to your lungs.
this isn't the first kind of transplant like that, the first one was in barcelona, i really hope my country starts doing this kind of transplants eventually, then i'll breathe normally again :dance:
[QUOTE=Aetna;40493472]I wasn't aware there was a standard surrounding this. Please, learn me the proper way of describing the tube that connects your throat to your lungs.[/QUOTE] trachea
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;40493337]Who the hell calls it a windpipe anymore?[/QUOTE] I know what we should call it! A LIVEY TUBE!
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;40493337]Who the hell calls it a windpipe anymore?[/QUOTE] Everyone and their grandmother
so wait she lived two years without a trachea? goddamn.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;40493220]Thank you doctors and science for making this stem cell trachea possible for this small girl, I am very grateful for your selfless help in her time of need.[/QUOTE] why does this come off as sarcastic
[QUOTE=koeniginator;40496995]why does this come off as sarcastic[/QUOTE] Because you think of someone ripping on the legalization of drugs/someone thanking God instead of a doctor/gun joke where people being sincere is very rare but common in this section.
That's pretty insane science right there. I still don't get how stem cells work -- how would it now how to make the right organic material around the pipe? I get that it can form to molds and stuff, but how would it make the correct type of tissue
the girls head looks shopped on in that pic
[QUOTE=Crash15;40497046]the girls head looks shopped on in that pic[/QUOTE] Same with the hello kitty balloon
[QUOTE=zombays;40496779]Everyone and their grandmother[/QUOTE] I honestly have not heard that word in years. I call it a trachea. Then again I guess I don't talk about people's throats very often, it just sounded strange to hear it again.
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;40497168]I honestly have not heard that word in years. I call it a trachea. Then again I guess I don't talk about people's throats very often, it just sounded strange to hear it again.[/QUOTE] The fact you give a damn about what it's being called when you know what the other meaning is is just stupid.
[QUOTE=alexguydude;40497039]That's pretty insane science right there. I still don't get how stem cells work -- how would it now how to make the right organic material around the pipe? I get that it can form to molds and stuff, but how would it make the correct type of tissue[/QUOTE] It's probably got something to do with surface proteins and shit on the surrounding cells. No idea how it works in a foetus though.
oh god it looks so shopped :v: [t]http://cq5-www-production-east-421390873.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/content/dam/thestar/news/world/2013/04/30/girl_2_born_without_windpipe_gets_bioengineered_transplant_in_groundbreaking_surgery/hannah_warren.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Wiggles;40493301]It'd be interesting to find out just how many children's lives have been saved or made substantially better through fixing birth defects like this.[/QUOTE] Makes me wonder how it will affect the future when birth defects can be fixed, but they still pass on.
in norway we just call it a eating tube (lit. translation)
[QUOTE=Monkey pie;40511505]in norway we just call it a eating tube (lit. translation)[/QUOTE] in finland it's "breath tube" or "food tube"
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