The trachea implant worked partially. There was a regeneration but the new tissue lacked the ciliary cells . The absence of these cells caused the implant to fail overtime . In addition to that there was a doctor involved that many alleged was dishonest and he mislead probably all involved about the actual results.
I think a girl named Claudia Castillo and a boy named Ciaran Finn Lynch are alive until today with a regenerated trachea made by biostage or similar tech as biostage . It's very interesting these 2 are alive with the implant . It was a partial success but again trachea was a challenge and was never tried in large animals . Look what happen now they neglected bronchus because probably large animals mean the pigs it didn't work well. I believe trachea wouldn't work well in pigs as well but the esophagus works. Anyway even the trachea was a partial success
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