To Xenotransplant or Not to Xenotransplant: Pigs, Baboons, or Frogs?

26/07/2019

113,000 people in the United States are currently eligible to receive a transplant, but only about 36,528 transplants are performed each year due to a shortage of available organs. As a result, approximately 20 people die each day waiting for a transplant (1). Researchers have been exploring new technologies...

A Brief History of Xenotransplantation

17/01/2018

Transplantation has been one of the most challenging areas of modern medicine. Since there are more patients awaiting a transplant than available organs, the waiting list is growing exponentially each year . Xenotransplantation, the transplantation of animal organs into humans, has long been appealing as a possible solution for...

Replacement Organs – Types, Basics, Expectations

27/02/2017

If we take a look back at 2016 to find the biggest scientific achievements and think about the the challenges that life scienctists are facing we find that one of the most interesting and developing areas is tissue engineering for growing artificial organs in the lab. It’s not surprising that...