Wednesday, August 24, 2005

A Patient's Thoughts on Xenotransplantation

Terie is a liver and kidney transplant recipient. From Terie and Ger's Transplant Adventure:
Before my bovine lung patch turned me into a chimera (much like all those heart patients with the porcine valves and the mice with inserted human genes) I never thought about xenotransplantation. Now that I am part cow, part generous stranger and part Ger, I have done a lot of thinking about the issues surrounding ethical allo- and xenotransplantation...
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