SURGEONS hope the groundbreaking surgery carried out on 11-year-old Ciarán Finn-Lynch will lead to arevolution in regenerative medicine.

AN 11-year-old boy from the North has become the first child in the world to have pioneering surgery in which his windpipe was rebuilt using his own stem cells.

DOCTORS have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy from his own stem cells.

AN artificial airway created from stem cells has been used to save a woman’s left lung in a landmark operation that could change the face of transplant surgery.