HOW would you feel if you had a little piece of pig beating inside your chest?
That is the remarkable prospect raised by a novel technique to refurbish pig organs with human tissue that could offer a new way to tackle the worldwide shortage of organs for transplant.
We certainly need to do something. This week there were 101,969 Americans . Many tens of thousands will die before they reach the top of the list.
With the help of stem cell technology, we are learning to make tissues from scratch. Fashioning entire organs is another…
