| IsawYoshi said: We probably wouldn't have to do this if only people donated their hearts and lungs when they died. Since so few do that we have to make do in other ways. So in other words, if you oppose this you should get yourself a donor card. If everyone did that this kind of thing wouldn't really be needed anymore. |
No you are mistaken, this *isnt* the problem they are trying to solve.
The problem is that you put another humans organ in another human, then they are still limited by time and they have to take medicine every day for their life as the body would fail the organ (the medicine is pretty hardcore as well). The idea with this is that they would grow you a body part using your own stem cells in another way (in this case a pig). So when they put it in your body your body would recognise it as your own and would not fight it.
Thats not to say they wouldnt be able to improve the drugs that keep people alive (at the moment transplant patients have a limited life time), but using a persons cells to create new body parts is the key to extending life of those whos organs fail, donations do help but its still a limiting factor.
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