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Animal rights groups, unsurprisingly, oppose the idea of using animals for human transplants. “Animals aren’t toolsheds to be raided but complex, intelligent beings,” a spokesperson from ...
Many, including animal rights groups, strongly oppose killing animals to harvest their organs for human use. [77] In the 1960s, many organs came from the chimpanzees, and were transferred into people that were deathly ill, and in turn, did not live much longer afterwards. [78]
One article examining the ethics of xenotransfusion notes that only 10% of the animal's blood volume is used each time; therefore, it may be considered ethically acceptable to raise pigs for periodical blood collection as it does not damage the health of the animal. Likewise, using pRBCs on humans would not cause severe harm to human health. [2]
There are fewer debates on animal sources, as historically laboratory animals have been used to develop organ transplantation technologies for prolonging human life, such as using animal organs in xenotransplantation on human. Nevertheless, animal rights activists have objections on what they see as trading off the rights of animals to live ...
Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal. The latest experiment announced ...
The transplantation of animal organs into humans — known as xenotransplantation — has a long history. Scientists have been trying to transplant animal organs into humans for nearly two ...
The use of any artificial organ by humans is almost always preceded by extensive experiments with animals. [7] [8] [9] Initial testing in humans is frequently limited to those either already facing death or who have exhausted every other treatment possibility.
Scientists think genetically-modified animals could one day be the solution to an organ supply shortage that causes thousands of people in the U.S. to die every year waiting for a transplant.