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Nature Medicine  1, 964 - 966 (1995)
doi:10.1038/nm0995-964

The generation of transgenic pigs as potential organ donors for humans

Emanuele Cozzi1 & David J.G. White2, 3

  1Instituto de Medicina Internet, Padua University, Padua, Italy & Imutran Research Fellow

  2Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Douglas House, 18 Trumpington Road, Cambridge CB2 2AH, UK

  3Correspondence should be addressed to D.J.G.W.


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