Trachea synthetic windpipes; however, a successful method for this method of transplant does not currently exist and development of such a method remains theoretically daunting. The word "trachea" is used to define a very different organ in invertebrates than in vertebrates. Insects have an open respiratory system made up of spiracles, tracheae, and tracheoles to transport metabolic gases to and from tissues. An adult's trachea has an inner diameter of about and a length of about 10 to 11 centimetres (4 in.). It begins at the bottom of the larynx, and ends at the carina, the point where the trachea branches
Unethical human experimentation in the United States ashes analyzed for radioisotopes. This project was kept secret primarily because it would be a public relations disaster; as a result parents and family were not told what was being done with the body parts of their relatives. Between 1960 and 1971, the Department of Defense funded non-consensual whole body radiation experiments on mostly poor and black cancer patients, who were not told what was being done to them. Patients were told that they were receiving a "treatment" that might cure their cancer, but the Pentagon was trying to determine the effects of high levels of radiation on the human