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Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. The operation, reported online Wednesday in the medical journal The Lancet, was performed in Spain on Claudia Castillo (left), a 30-year-old Colombian who suffered from tuberculosis. Castillo has shown no signs of rejection, but doctors say she needs to be monitored closely. Read more about her treatment and its potential at chicagotribune.com/windpipe
