Xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation: Animals Organs for Human Transplantation: How Close are We?

The earliest known documentation of xenotransplantation was in the year 1667 when a French doctor by the name of Jean-Baptiste Denys made use of blood collected from farm animals to perform human blood transfusions. This animal-to-human transplantation had some initial success, as Denys’ first patient, a fifteen-year-old boy, survived upon receiving sheep’s blood into his …

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