Is it possible for any of this xenotransplantation research to proceed without animal experiments?
Absolutely impossible, in my opinion, to proceed with human implantation transplantation of a pig organ without animal experimentation. It is absolutely necessary. And not something that I consider lightly. It’s something that as as an individual who prizes human life beyond all else, but appreciates animal life and welfare as well. I must admit that this is an issue that in my mind has absolutely no equivocation. Human life is what I am designed to help and it’s something that I understand in a very intimate way. For me to take any therapy and use it on a human requires that I understand how that therapy is going to impact in a biologic environment. And there is no surrogate, there is no test tube, there is no alternative milieu that will permit me to understand the behavior of anything if it’s not in an animal first, before going to a human. And even if it’s done in an animal first, it isn’t going to mimic the human condition precisely, but it is the best alternative that we have. Le
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