Xenotransplantation Transplantation Health
Xenotransplantation Transplantation Health
Xenotransplantation refers to the practice of taking organs, cells or tissue from one species and transplanting them to another species (usually a human being).
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Setback for Animal to Human Transplants (BBC) - Article about a moratorium, ordered by the Council of Europe, on clinical tests of animal organ transplants.
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Diaries of Despair - On September 21 2000, Uncaged Campaigns and the British national paper Daily Express produced what they describe as "one of the most devastating exposés of animal experimentation ever to occur: the secret history of pig-to-primate organ transplants
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Xenotransplantation - Includes a survey, list of people active in the field, publications and news.
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Xenotransplant News - Details of a petition filed by the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation.
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Campaign for Responsible Transplantation - An international coalition of physicians, scientists, and public interest groups opposing xenotransplantation because of the risk of transferring deadly animal viruses to the human population.
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New Pig Virus Capable of Infecting Humans - Australian scientists sounded a new warning against cross-species transplants after two piggery workers were found to be infected with a previously unknown virus, which had caused stillbirths and brain and spinal cord defects in pigs.
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Animal-to-Human Transplants - Information about the procedures involved and the risk it may have for humans.
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Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues - Critique of xenotransplantation.
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