title: One breath closer to making engineered tissues a clinical reality.
abstract: Reported recently in Lancet, Macchiarini and colleagues (2008) implanted a living tissue-engineered airway in a female patient. The restoration of the patient's quality of life testifies to this successful translation of benchtop to bedside studies and provides promise for the application of regenerative medicine strategies to other clinical disorders.
authors.affiliation: Cellular Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. cth6@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Clark T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Hung
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012137:Respiratory System; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology; D023822:Tissue Engineering
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials