After years of struggling to breathe and fearing she might suffocate in her sleep, Sonia Sein says she feels well enough to dance around with her grandchildren after undergoing the first-ever human ...

Hannah Warren was born without a trachea but now has one made from plastic fibers and a stew of her own stem cells. The 2-year-old Korean Canadian has spent every day of her life in intensive care, ...

Scientists and surgeons have led a revolutionary operation to transplant a new trachea into a child, using the child's own stem cells to rebuild the airway in the body. UCL scientists and surgeons ...

Engineers and doctors 3D printed this custom-made splint that currently holds open the airway of a six-week-old infant and will be gradually absorbed into the body over time. Image via University of ...

A new technique developed helps in tracheal replacement, where living windpipe structures are being grown to replace the damaged trachea. Biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University are ...

A 2-year-old girl who was the first child to receive a windpipe grown from her own stem cells died this past weekend, Children's Hospital of Illinois said in a statement Monday. Hannah Warren would ...

New insight on the genes that allow the wind and food pipe to separate during development may help scientists understand the possible causes of birth defects where the two organs remain joined. A ...

Drinking in the sweet scent of the flowers her daughter had given her for Mother's Day, Sonia Sein's eyes brimmed with tears. For nearly eight years, this simple pleasure had been only a dream. In ...

Less than three months after receiving a synthetic windpipe made from her own stem cells, 2-year-old Hannah Warren has passed away. Warren died Saturday at Children’s Hospital of Illinois, according ...

Trachea cancer patient receives new trachea grown from own stem cells. Jan. 13, 2012— -- Christopher Lyles, 30, of Abingdon, Md, exhausted the limited treatment options available in the U.S. for ...