There are many thoughts on xenotransplant surgery like Is it healthy? Is it ethical? Or will the body accept it? Because the problem with transplanting cross-species is that the human immune system might see the organ's proteins on the outer layer as an invader and reject the organ. So in order to combat this problem scientist have began to manipulate the proteins to appear more human and more acceptable. The Pig Endogenous Retroviruses (PERV) has been detected in all pigs found in their cells. This is one of the main reasons why people are skeptical of xenotransplantation. These transplants could help more than 62,000 patients on a waiting list for organs. But according to Revivior "One patient is added to the list every 16 minutes and every day 11 patients die waiting". Meanwhile the
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