"British doctors help perform world's first transplant of a whole organ" from UK Telegraph reports on a 30 year old mother of two who had a new windpipe grown from her own stem cells, marking the world's first organ donation to oneself that was grown in a lab.
Because the new windpipe was made from cells taken from Ms Castillo's own body, using a process called "tissue engineering", she has not needed powerful drugs to prevent her body rejecting the organ.
Avoiding the use of these drugs means she will not be an increased risk of cancer and other diseases unlike other transplant patients - another significant advance.
Five months after the operation was carried out she is now living normally and is able to look after her children again.
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