July 26, 2012— -- The first child in history to receive a trachea fashioned by his own stem cells has shown remarkable progress since the initial transplant two years ago, marking a new ...

The first successful direct transplant of a trachea is a medical milestone that could help thousands of people with airways damaged by ventilators and other causes. Sonia Sein, outside her Bronx ...

Nanofiber Solutions designed and built the scaffold used in the second-ever synthetic trachea transplant procedure. Read more about the company's technology.

In fact, trachea transplants have been one of the last big challenges in this area of medicine. A 56-year-old woman from the Bronx, New York, named Sonia Sein is the recipient.

The trachea, or windpipe, is the tube that connects the larynx to the lungs and is essential for speaking, breathing, and normal lung function, according to a news release from Mount Sinai.

A: Collapsing trachea, also called tracheal collapse, is very common in toy and small-breed dogs like Yorkies. The trachea, or windpipe, is a flexible tube made of cartilage rings that meet at a ...