How to Use xenotransplantation in a Sentence
xenotransplantation
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There are still a lot of questions about xenotransplantation.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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In the area of xenotransplantation, opponents have questioned harms that may come to the pigs.
—Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
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There is still a lot of work to do before xenotransplantation becomes routine.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
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In the long term, xenotransplantation may be key to ending organ shortages.
—Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
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Advances in xenotransplantation have been made in recent decades.
—Allison Prang, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
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The groups hope to launch trials in living patients soon, but Faucette’s death may be a setback for the prospect of xenotransplantation.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
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This was not the first successful xenotransplantation of a working organ.
—Noah Millman, The Week, 12 Jan. 2022
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But as technology has advanced, so has the field of xenotransplantation.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
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Anyone wishing to succeed at xenotransplantation has to come up with strategies for blocking or sidestepping them.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
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The field of xenotransplantation, or transplanting organs across species, has made serious strides.
—Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 30 May 2019
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But there’s debate in the xenotransplantation field over how many genetic edits are necessary for a pig organ to work long term in a person.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
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In the late 2000s, there was almost a frenzy around xenotransplantation.
—Deeptee Jain, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
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There still hasn’t been wide-scale approval of xenotransplantation by the FDA -- approval is on a case-by-case basis.
—Morgan Norwood, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2024
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There are also reasons to believe xenotransplantation could work better in human trials than in monkeys, the panelists said.
—Isabella Cueto, STAT, 4 Apr. 2022
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The field responds A number of experts in the field of xenotransplantation said work would continue despite the deaths and setbacks.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
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But pig kidneys that filter human urine and pig hearts that beat inside human bodies haven’t yet fulfilled xenotransplantation’s promise.
—Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2023
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Lisa Pisano, the fourth xenotransplantation patient and second to receive a pig kidney, died Sunday.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
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In one study, a team of researchers edited a common virus from fetal pig genomes and then bred piglets that could one day be a source for xenotransplantation to address the human organ shortage.
—Jessica Firger, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2017
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Cooper thinks that the best hope of providing more organs lies in xenotransplantation—the act of replacing a human organ with an animal one.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2012
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But Montgomery makes a bold prediction that xenotransplantation will become routine in less than 10 years.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Researchers have been working for decades on xenotransplantation, or the transplantation of an organ between two species, amid an organ shortage.
—Allison Prang, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
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David Bennett survived for two months, evidence that xenotransplantation was at least possible.
—Arkansas Online, 13 July 2022
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This organ shortage has caused doctors to turn to xenotransplantation—or transplanting an animal organ into a human body.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
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The new data could help convince regulators that xenotransplantation is ready for clinical trials in humans.
—Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2023
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Stripping away the pig cells removes some of the risks of xenotransplantation, such as lurking animal viruses or hyper-rejection, Ross said.
—Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2022
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Advances in gene editing and cloning techniques revived hopes in recent years that xenotransplantation clinical trials might be possible.
—Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
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The experiment is part of the growing field of xenotransplantation, or the sourcing of animal organs to try to solve the human organ supply crisis.
—NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022
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Her surgery is the latest in a series of similar procedures known as xenotransplantation, the practice of transplanting organs from one species to another.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
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Bioethicists generally support the idea of xenotransplantation, though animal rights activists say they wouldn't be needed if more people were organ donors.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
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And xenotransplantation – the process by which nonhuman animal organs are transplanted into humans – opened doors for all scientists in this field.
—Doris Taylor, Fortune Well, 11 Aug. 2023
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