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  2. Xenotransfusion - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, it is a transfer of blood between a non-human animal and a human. However, further experimentation has been done between various non-human animal species. This procedure can be performed without affecting the health of the donor, as only about 10% of their blood volume is used each time. [ 2 ]

  3. Xenotransplantation - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. Baby Fae - Wikipedia

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    Stephanie Fae Beauclair [1] (October 14, 1984 – November 15, 1984), better known as Baby Fae, was an American infant born in 1984 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.She became the first infant subject of a xenotransplant procedure and first successful infant heart transplant, receiving the heart of a baboon.

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    Ethicists have said transplanting organs from animals to humans is no more morally concerning than killing them for food. Looney feels the same way. "You eat bacon," she said.

  6. Interspecific pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    There have been both successful and unsuccessful examples of interspecific pregnancy in a multitude of different animals: “alpaca and lama (Godke 2001), cow (Bos taurus) and zebu (Bos indicus; Summers et al. 1983), banteng (Bos javanicus) and cow (Bos taurus; Solti et al. 2000), horse, donkey, Przewalski’s horse and Grant’s zebra (Summers ...

  7. Organ replacement in animals - Wikipedia

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    While small dogs and cats can survive comfortably with three legs, larger dogs, horses, and farm animals require the limb to support their weight. Surgery has also been done on birds that are used for breeding purposes. Each prosthetic limb is custom-made to fit the individual needs of the specific animal. [13] [14] [15]

  8. Humanized mouse - Wikipedia

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    Humanized mice are commonly used as small animal models in biological and medical research for human therapeutics. [ 2 ] A humanized mouse or a humanized mouse model is one that has been xenotransplanted with human cells and/or engineered to express human gene products, so as to be utilized for gaining relevant insights in the in vivo context ...

  9. Image credits: AdamCSharp It’s important to supervise pets outside in freezing temperatures because if they’re left there too long, their body temperature can get dangerously low, increasing ...