Xeno by David Cooper and Robert Lanza, Oxford, £18.99/$30, ISBN
0195128338
A NEW “infectious Chernobyl” threatens us. “The entire human population on
this planet is put at risk” if animal organs are transplanted into humans, says
the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation. Yet the Islet Foundation, whose
mission is “A Final Push in the Cure for Diabetes” takes the opposite point of
view: “Today we have a situation in which some totally unproved and speculative
risks are being used to prevent the elimination of the very real risks of
diabetes.” The foundation hopes that transplanted insulin-generating “islets”
will provide a cure:…
