Human-animal chimeras may be key to us living healthier live


There’s a one-in-five chance you’ll die of heart disease. But imagine if as soon as your heart showed signs of disease, you got whisked into hospital and given a healthy young heart that was a perfect match for you.
If we had a cheap and unlimited supply of healthy organs for transplant, it wouldn’t just transform the lives of desperately ill people who wait for years for organs – often only to get ones in a poor condition. It would also help people who doctors today don’t even consider for …

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