Xenotransplantation: The Future of Medicine
Jessica Penna, 11th Grade Solid organ transplantation, the only remedy to end-stage organ failure, is a relied upon practice for thousands of patients every year. Whether it be for kidneys, lungs, livers, or hearts, a patient can only get new organs through donation from a healthy patient or, from the most frequent source, a brain dead (BD) patient (1)(2). However, reliance on BD patients for … Continue reading Xenotransplantation: The Future of Medicine