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A 62-year-old man just received the world's first pig kidney transplant. Why experts say animal organs could 'turn medicine on its ear.'
Transplanting animal organs into humans is becoming more common, but these procedures remain rare and have yet to significantly extend patients’ lives. Amid an ongoing organ shortage ...
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Xenotransplantation Can’t Solve the Organ Shortage, New Paper Argues
The radical “innovation” of xenotransplantation—the idea of transplanting genetically engineered organs from animals into ...
The Scientist1y
Biotech Companies Set To Profit From Animal-Organ Transplants
The tantalizing possibility of using a potentially unlimited supply of organs from animals to replace damaged human ones -- through xenotransplantation -- has, in just the past few years, jumped the ...
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How ‘Organs on a Chip’ Will Revolutionize Medicine
But new “organs-on-chips” technology is emulating ... Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing—which often doesn’t translate to humans—or in a ...