Directory of Xenotransplantation Resources

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Xenotransplantation refers to the practice of taking organs, cells or tissue from one species and transplanting them to another species (usually a human being).

Resources in This Category

• Animal-to-Human Transplants

  http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/x-trans.htm
  Information about the procedures involved and the risk it may have for humans.

• Campaign for Responsible Transplantation

  http://www.crt-online.org/
  An international coalition of physicians, scientists, and public interest groups opposing xenotransplantation because of the risk of transferring deadly animal viruses to the human population.

• Diaries of Despair

  http://www.xenodiaries.org/
  On September 21 2000, Uncaged Campaigns and the British national paper Daily Express produced what they describe as "one of the most devastating exposés of animal experimentation ever to occur: the secret history of pig-to-primate organ transplants".

• New Pig Virus Capable of Infecting Humans

  http://web.linkny.com/~civitas/page56.html
  Australian scientists sounded a new warning against cross-species transplants after two piggery workers were found to be infected with a previously unknown virus, which had caused stillbirths and brain and spinal cord defects in pigs.

• Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues

  http://www.mrmcmed.org/pigs.html
  Critique of xenotransplantation.

• Setback for Animal to Human Transplants (BBC)

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/265933.stm
  Article about a moratorium, ordered by the Council of Europe, on clinical tests of animal organ transplants.

• Xenotransplant News

  http://web.linkny.com/~civitas/page61.html
  Details of a petition filed by the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation.

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