Posts tagged "synthetic"

• Surgeons Implant Synthetic Trachea in Baltimore Man →

  

  Surgeons in Sweden have replaced the cancerous windpipe of a Maryland man with one made in a laboratory and seeded with the man’s cells.

  The windpipe, or trachea, made from minuscule plastic fibers and covered in stem cells taken from the man’s bone marrow, was implanted in November. The patient, Christopher Lyles, 30, whose tracheal cancer had progressed to the point where it was considered inoperable, arrived home in Baltimore on Wednesday. It was the second procedure of its kind and the first for an American.

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• Scientists Produce Spider Silk From Metabolically Engineered Bacteria →

  Five times stronger than steel, three times tougher than Kevlar, yet thinner than a human hair, spider dragline silk has long been a highly prized textile—more so than silkworm silk, even. Farming the territorial beasties, which have a proclivity for cannibalism, however, is a challenge. Although a bunch of geneticists have enlisted the aid of transgenic spider-goat hybrids to produce economically scalable amounts of the coveted fiber, researchers are recruiting a much tinier (and perhaps less controversial) host: Escherichia coli, an industrially safe bacterium commonly found in our gut.

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  1 year ago reblog like Notes