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Page last updated at 11:28 GMT, Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Claudia Castillo
Windpipe transplant breakthrough
Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.
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