Het Beest in de Mens (The Beast in Man)
VPRO Noorderlicht / 25 min /1997
“Eight people are dying every day in want of a donor-organ” says Dr David White. In 1985 he started the investigation of use of animal (pig) kidneys and hearts for transplantation into humans. Rejection and the fear of unknown virussen are the main stumbling blocks. Recently though, he made a breakthrough in controlling the first step of rejection. And now, in spite of the English government who does not allow transplantations on humans as yet, the genie of xenotransplantation (as use of animal organs in humans is called) is out of the bottle. And many think it will be quite a usual technique within 10 years.
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