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Woman given a new 3D-printed windpipe in a world-first

www.sciencefocus.com Woman given a new 3D-printed windpipe in a world-first

Scientists have designed and successfully transplanted a 3D-printed windpipe for the first time. Read here to find out more.

Woman given a new 3D-printed windpipe in a world-first

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I hope her surgeon wasn't named Paolo Macchiarini.
- Paolo Macchiarini
  Exactly the name I was thinking of when I read the headline. Yikes. I sure hope this one isn't a quack and she dies from blood infection in a few weeks/months.
  
  I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of this
  
  The article says she's fine 6 months later, so everything went well, most likely.

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