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Advances in cell transplantation and material sciences are being combined to create more biocompatible tissue engineered medical devices (pages 90–93).
The infectious disease risks associated with baboon-to-human transplants may represent an insurmountable hurdle in the race to save lives. Yet, public health agencies are relucant to regulate Xenotransplantation in spite of those risks.