A lot of research has been made and it has been discovered
that in the future animal organs could be used for people. There are 120,000 people that need organs;
this number is a lot higher than the actual amount of organs that are
available. Xenotransplantaion is what
the process of putting animal organs in humans is called. The animal organ could also be used as a
temporary organ to keep the patient’s body functioning until a compatible human
organ is available. The biggest hurdle
that the researchers are trying to surpass is tissue rejection that the recipient’s
immune system could do. They
transplanted pig organs to baboons and it stayed well for 500 days. The doctors and researchers have to perfect
the problem of tissue rejection which is the hardest part.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/04/30/animals-could-become-human-organ-donors-some-day-researchers-say/?intcmp=latestnews
