Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Pig-To-Human Transplants on the Horizon

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""Thousands of patients die every year in the United States waiting for a suitable donor organ. Transplant surgeon David Sachs thinks he has almost found the right protocol: a combination of organs from miniaturized, genetically engineered pigs and pig immune tissue that can prime the primate immune system to accept foreign parts.""

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