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Animal-to-Human Transplantation

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Animal-to-Human Transplantation
An as-yet—barring porcine heart valves—hypothetical procedure in which organs would be harvested from animals—e.g., pigs—to replace damaged organs
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Xenotransplantation' is the jargon term for it, but animal-to-human transplantation is what it means.
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Overall, there does not appear to be any major ethical reason why the medical community should not at least consider animal-to-human transplantation therapies as a possible option to human therapy," the report said.
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Each lacked both copies of the gene responsible for making the enzyme alpha1, 3 galactosyl transferase, a feat that could bring in the next generation of organ donors, making animal-to-human transplantation feasible.
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