LORD Winston, the fertility expert and Labour peer, is to begin breeding genetically modified pigs in the hope of providing organs for transplant to humans, it was reported yesterday.
Scientists in London and California have begun experiments to find a solution to record waits for organ transplants. In Britain around 8,000 patients are on waiting lists. "People needing a new heart or liver are waiting for someone else to die - usually a violent death in a traffic accident," Lord Winston wrote in a Sunday newspaper. Lord Winston, who heads the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology at London's Hammersmith Hospital, expects the technique to provide a solution to the shortage of organs within ten years.
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