The first phase of clinical trials using stem cells to counter the condition known as ‘diabetic foot’ have been successfully concluded.
Successful transplant
The Unidad de Genética, Reproducción y Medicina Fetal (Genetics, Reproduction and Fetal Medicine Unit) at the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Sevilla has successfully carried out the first transfer of umbilical cord blood from the first baby manipulated to be free of hereditary genetic disease.
World’s first transplant using ‘tailor-made’ windpipe
A 30 year old Colombian woman, Claudia Castillo, is in perfect health after receiving a new windpipe made from her own stem cells in a groundbreaking operation. The operation was the world’s first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant and was carried out in Barcelona by Italian surgeon Professor Paolo Macchiarini.