Animal-to-human transplant could be the key to tackling the organ donor shortage
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I recently asked Brendan Parent, Director of Transplant Ethics and Policy Research and Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, if xenotransplantation — the transplantation of nonhuman tissues or organs into human recipients — could stop the illegal organ trade.
"That is one significant possibility," Parent tells me.
Experts say this year's monsoon rains in Pakistan were the worst ever, flooding one-third of the South Asian country, ruining crops on hundreds of thousands of acres, and uprooting at least 33 million people of its 220 million population.