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Nature 408, 630 (7 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35047251

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Xenotransplantation opponents take FDA to court

Paul Smaglik

Opponents of xenotransplantation research have begun a lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), demanding that more information be made public about experiments in which humans receive transplants of animal tissue.The Campaign for Responsible Transplantation, which filed the lawsuit, says adverse events from xenotransplantation have been reported in journals and at public meetings hosted by the FDA, but the agency has refused to release all the data from these trials.