Animal Experimentation | Using Animals as Organ Donors May Save Human Lives
Daniel Q. Haney is a medical editor with the Associated Press news wire service.
Despite some anticipated difficulties, researchers project that pigs may begin fulfilling the mounting human need for hearts and kidneys by 2006. In particular, genetically engineered miniature pigs, scaled down to the dimensions of a large person, show promise for supplying much-needed organs. Unlike primates, pigs are not endangered, and because their tissue is less like human tissue than the tissue of primates, their organs are less likely to successfully transmit a foreign virus...
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