Going beyond heart valves in transplant organs from pigs

“Transplanted heart valves routinely come from pigs as well as cows,” says the Los Angeles Times, but it’s not as simple to use swine organs for people who need kidneys, livers or lungs. Besides the usual challenges of transplanting organs, scientists face the problem of retroviruses carried in pig cells and produced under stress. “And… » Read More

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