Sentence examples for trachea from inspiring English sources

Instead of building a turbine add-on to the phone, his team developed software that listens for acoustic features, such as resonance, that result from air being expelled through the trachea and past the vocal cords.

The team extracted these, cultured them and then used a special growth factor to persuade them to spin off chondrocytes.Both epithelial cells and chondrocytes were applied liberally to the treated trachea and the result, when it had settled down into something that resembled a natural windpipe, was transplanted into Ms Castillo.

Here's Mr Krulwich:Birchall and his team took the new trachea, mounted it onto a rotating drum, and then dropped it into a nutrient medium so Claudia's cells would grow and spread, then lifted it out, so the cells could get oxygen, then dumped it back in again.

The problem, apparently, was that the trachea was soaked in more than 100ml of medical liquid, and as a result it never made it aboard the easyJet plane.

It's a fascinating read, but it will be of particular interest to Gulliver readers because the climactic moment involves one of our least-favourite characters: the overzealous airport security guard.Ms Castillo, a 30-year-old Colombian who was living in Barcelona, needed a new trachea.

Deaths from cancers of the lung, trachea and bronchus in particular fell by 39% between 1991 and 2005 among Englishmen over 49.

This trachea now was Totally Claudia on the outside.

The trachea had 16 hours to get into Claudia.

The starting point for Ms Castillo's transplant, therefore, was a piece of trachea removed from a dead donor.The team stripped this of its cells (and thus of the antigens that provoke an immune response) by treating it with a special detergent.

That way, it would grow her own cells on it and her immune system would be less likely to reject the trachea as a foreign object.

Instead, a pilot friend of one of Mr Birchall's grad students flew it to Barcelona, where it was successfully implanted in Ms Castillo.Now scientists can grow tracheas entirely from scratch they don't need a donor trachea to grow new cells on top of.