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Science 8 March 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5254, p. 1357
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5254.1357b
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News & Comment

Claire O'Brien

Cambridge, U.K.--An influential British panel is urging that transplants of organs from animals to humans not be approved until scientists understand more about the risks of transferring infectious agents between species. In a report published this week, the independent Nuffield Council on Bioethics says pig-to-human transplants would be ethically justified if the risks are judged acceptable. But it argues against primate-to-human transplants because they involve a higher risk of transferring pathogens, and the panel says raising primates for their organs is hard to justify on ethical grounds.




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