The transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another, for example the transplantation of animal organs into human patients.
This has not been a good year for life-scientists. Anti-GM activists dressed as genetically engineered monsters took part in Halloween celebrations in New York and Washington D.C. to protest against what they call 'Frankenscience'. The Campaign for Responsible Transplantation were out in force on the streets of New York's Greenwich...
Advisors to the British government have recommended that people who receive a pig heart transplant can never have unprotected sex and, therefore, can never have children. It doesn't end there: recipients must agree to a life of blood tests and other monitoring; they must inform the authorities of each person...
The UK government has agreed to allow research on the use of transgenic pigs for transplantation due to the acute shortage of human organs. No license has been granted, but the first application is believed to be imminent. A draft report of the 'monitoring and surveillance of potential infections associated...
Scientists are a step closer to the first pig-to-human transplant after the largest study of long-term effects found no evidence of cross-species infection. The study, published in the journal Science, was carried out by a multi-centre group led by Dr Khazal Paradis of Imutran - the Cambridge-based subsidiary of the drug...
PPL Therapeutics, the Scottish biotechnology company where Dolly the sheep was cloned, has bred two transgenic sheep using a new technique called gene targeting. The lambs - called Cupid and Diana - have a human gene in their DNA allowing them to produce human proteins in their milk that could be used...
Embryologists at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine have reported a new method of producing transgenic animals. Dubbed 'Honolulu transgenesis', the technique is a modification of a method originally developed by Ryuzo Yanagimachi for injecting sperm into eggs. Called intracytoplasmic sperm injection, this microinjection technique is fast becoming a...
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