News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
The ban was imposed five years ago because of concerns about the risk of diseases being transferred between pigs and humans during the process, known as xenotransplantation. But one key researcher behind the technology says he has had success...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
The ban was implemented in 2004 because of concerns then about the spread of a pig virus to humans. Research overseas since has found no evidence of infection in patients who have received the transplant of pig tissue. Pigs are the most frequent...