Timing xenotransplantation
Timing xenotransplantation
© 2005 National Academy of SciencesIsraeli researchers report that embryonic pig tissues used for liver, pancreas, and lung transplants need to come from very specific windows of time in embryonic development.1 The findings offer new insights into organogenesis and might help explain past failures in xenotransplantation, says coauthor Yair Reisner of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.Reisner and his colleagues transplanted pig tissue precursors from embryonic day (E)21 to