Beyene, 36, became the first person to undergo the world’s first successful transplant of artificial trachea which was made of his own stem cells grown on a bio-reactor under controlled conditions.

Beyene was suffering from tracheal cancer and was referred to Professor Paolo Macchiarini of Karolinska University Hospital as a last hope to get something done. And there, he was operated and a new trachea was inserted within him which was made of Beyene own cells and of special plastic polymer.

Macchiarini informed that this was the first permanent artificial organ ever and it was an emergency which needed immediate surgery so they were not able to wait for the organ donor.

The patient’s bone marrow was removed with filtering of many cells known as mononucleocytes and a team led by Alexander Seifalian, at the University College of London worked endlessly to produce Y- shaped matrix. David Green’s team at Harvard Biosciences in Holliston, Mass. traveled to Stockholm to fit in the matrix and cells in a bio cell reactor. And after 48 hours, the man made pipe was ready for implantation.

Tracheal Cancer is being considered as a rare but a deadly one which affects almost 1800 people in the developed countries in a year. But patients could recognize of the disease only after they come for check up and complain of suffering shortage of breath and till that time their tumors has grown to an extent that could not be operated.