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Ethical rejections of xenotransplantation?
Author(s) -
Loike John D,
Kadish Alan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.201846337
Subject(s) - xenotransplantation , transplantation , economic shortage , environmental ethics , biology , library science , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , government (linguistics) , computer science
Xenotransplantation using organs from human‐pig chimeras has great potential to alleviate the shortage of donor organs and benefit patients. However, scientific, ethical and financial issues need to be resolved before clinical testing can begin.