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Xenotransplants
The recent landmark case of an AIDS patient receiving a bone marrow transplant from a baboon has raised the question: how safe are transplants between species? Could potentially dangerous animal diseases find their way into the human population? In this hour: the promise and risks of xenotransplants.
Guests:
Dr. Marion Michaels
Asst. Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Fritz Bach
Lewis Thomas Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Dr. Ralph Dell
Professor of Pediatrics
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, NY
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