How to Use xenotransplantation in a Sentence

xenotransplantation

noun
  • There are still a lot of questions about xenotransplantation.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 2024-12-17
  • In the area of xenotransplantation, opponents have questioned harms that may come to the pigs.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 2022-09-06
  • There is still a lot of work to do before xenotransplantation becomes routine.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 2022-01-20
  • The groups hope to launch trials in living patients soon, but Faucette’s death may be a setback for the prospect of xenotransplantation.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 2023-10-31
  • This was not the first successful xenotransplantation of a working organ.
    — Noah Millman, The Week, 2022-01-12
  • But as technology has advanced, so has the field of xenotransplantation.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2022-03-10
  • Anyone wishing to succeed at xenotransplantation has to come up with strategies for blocking or sidestepping them.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2022-01-24
  • The field of xenotransplantation, or transplanting organs across species, has made serious strides.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 2019-05-30
  • In the late 2000s, there was almost a frenzy around xenotransplantation.
    — Deeptee Jain, Forbes, 2023-03-09
  • There still hasn’t been wide-scale approval of xenotransplantation by the FDA -- approval is on a case-by-case basis.
    — Morgan Norwood, ABC News, 2024-12-20
  • The field responds A number of experts in the field of xenotransplantation said work would continue despite the deaths and setbacks.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 2024-05-31
  • In one study, a team of researchers edited a common virus from fetal pig genomes and then bred piglets that could one day be a source for xenotransplantation to address the human organ shortage.
    — Jessica Firger, Newsweek, 2017-12-13
  • Cooper thinks that the best hope of providing more organs lies in xenotransplantation—the act of replacing a human organ with an animal one.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2012-08-20
  • David Bennett survived for two months, evidence that xenotransplantation was at least possible.
    — Arkansas Online, 2022-07-13
  • This organ shortage has caused doctors to turn to xenotransplantation—or transplanting an animal organ into a human body.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2022-03-10
  • Stripping away the pig cells removes some of the risks of xenotransplantation, such as lurking animal viruses or hyper-rejection, Ross said.
    — Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 2022-12-27
  • The experiment is part of the growing field of xenotransplantation, or the sourcing of animal organs to try to solve the human organ supply crisis.
    — NBC News, 2022-01-20
  • Animal-to-human transplants, what’s called xenotransplantation, have been attempted without success for decades.
    — Lauran Neergaard, ajc, 2022-01-20
  • The announcement marks the latest development in xenotransplantation, the term for efforts to try to heal human patients with cells, tissues, or organs from animals.
    — Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 2024-03-21
  • The dream of animal-to-human transplants—or xenotransplantation—goes back to the 17th century with stumbling attempts to use animal blood for transfusions.
    — Time, 2021-10-20
  • There's no specific legislation prohibiting xenotransplantation in the UK but there are animal welfare laws that touch on the issue.
    — Abby Wilson, theweek, 2024-12-24
  • The dream of animal-to-human transplants — or xenotransplantation — goes back to the 17th century with stumbling attempts to use animal blood for transfusions.
    — Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 2021-10-20
  • And yet a surprising number of medical professionals, bioethicisists, and the media covering xenotransplantation have been mum on the subject.
    — Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 2022-01-20
  • And the handful of hospitals trying them are sharing information of what worked and what didn't, in preparation for the world's first formal studies of xenotransplantation, expected to begin sometime this year.
    — CBS News, 2025-01-25
  • Ed Reschke Earlier this year, news broke of the first experimental xenotransplantation: A human patient with heart disease received a heart from a pig that had been genetically engineered to avoid rejection.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2022-06-24

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