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Image taken from DNA ProTip SAS and Strasbourg University Hospitals announced that a fully artificial larynx was implanted into a human for the first time. Made entirely of titanium, the surgery was performed in two stages into a man with throat cancer that required his entire voicebox to be removed (laryngectomy). Stage 1: In June 2012, the larynx was removed and a titanium tracheal ring was implanted in its place. Stage 2: In November 2012, a removable valve-based device was inse…