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Transplanting GM Animal Organs into Humans

General Paper on Ethical Issues in Xenotransplantation

The SRT Project first examined the complex ethical issues of genetically modifying animal organs for use in human transplantation - xenotransplantation - in 1994, early in our 5 year study "Engineering Genesis" on the ethics of genetic modification in animals, plants and micro-organism. Our expert working group prepared a submission Ethical Issues in Xenotransplantation to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics study into the subject. We also sent this submission the following year, with further additions, to the UK Department of Health's consultation.

Comments on the Nuffield Xenotransplanation Report

The SRT Director's critique of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 1995 report "Animal-to-Human Transplants - the Ethics of Xenotransplanation".

GM Animals, Humans and the Future of Genetics

This SRT Report was passed by the May 2001 Church of Scotland General Assembly. It examines a range of technologies at the interfact between animal research and human medicine, including cloning, xenotransplantation, GM animals as models of human disease.

Press Releases on Xenotransplantation from the SRT Project

Cautious Welcome for "Knockout" Pigs but Ethical Doubts Remain - 2 January 2002
The ethical issues raised by the production of cloned genetically modified piglets by the US subsidiary of Scotland's PPL Therapeutics plc with a gene "knocked out" which would otherwise cause rejection by the human body. Should we delete genetic functions from animals? Do the realistic prospects and risks of xenotransplanation justify such research?
Cautious Welcome for Transgenic Cloned Pigs - 11 April 2001
Pig Cloning for Transplants - 14 March 2000

Related SRT Pages

For more about these issues see our book Engineering Genesis
Genetic Engineering in Animals and Plants
Genetically Modified Animals
Genetically Modified Food
Human and Animal Cloning
Gene Patenting
Human Genetics
Gene Therapy
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This page was last revised on 2 January 2002