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Clinical trials for pig-to-human organ transplants inch closer

US regulatory agency signals willingness to allow first xenotransplant trials.
  1. Max Kozlov
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In the months since physicians showed that it is possible to transplant pig organs into humans, researchers have been calling for US regulators to allow clinical trials to test such procedures thoroughly in people. Last week, during a two-day meeting of an advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), agency officials and physicians discussed what regulators would need to move forwards. Most attendees agreed that human trials are needed to help answer the most pressing research questions about inter-species transplants, known as xenotransplants.

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Nature 607, 223-224 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01861-2

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