Xenotransplantation: Today and Tomorrow
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Xenotransplantation using pig cells, tissues or organs is at present thought to be the best approach to alleviate the increasing shortage of human tissues and organs for the treatment of tissue and organ failure. This shortage is the reason that approximately 25% of the patients on a waiting list die before they could be treated with an appropriate donor organ. In the US, 30,974 organ transplants were performed in 2015, however 118,066 people need a lifesaving organ transplant [1].
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