Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2021. Q: Our Yorkshire terrier Bentley has a dry, honking cough. His ...

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 ...

Five years ago, Claudia Castillo got a new trachea—a de-celled donor scaffold seeded with cartilage cells grown from her own stem cells and with epithelial cells from a healthy part of her windpipe.

After Castillo’s own trachea had partially collapsed following complications from tuberculosis, Paolo Macchiarini at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona in Spain and colleagues decided she needed a new ...