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Title: A Comprehensive Examination Of Xenotransplants
Words: 1912
Xenotransplant -zEE'nO'trans'plant
The surgical removal of an organ or tissue from one species and transplanting it into a member of a different species, for example: the use of a baboon heart in a human being.
Over the past several years the topic of xenotransplantation has continued to be in the scientific and media spotlight, and with just cause. The thought of using parts from other creatures in a human sounds like something out of a horror film and one would probably no doubt be burned at the stake for even suggesting the idea at one point in time. However, with all of the medical advances in today's society, (cloning, the human genome project and modifying other organisms to our own specifications), does a xenograft really seem that far fetched? The History, societal ...
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