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Human Transplant Organs Should Be As Common As Cell Phones

16-Sep-2017

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Joseph Vacanti one of the authors of “The Vacanti Mouse” - a mouse with a human ear on its back reveals details about that story two decades later.

He believes in order to create human body parts they just need another million dollars in funding so they could do the final large animal experiments that could lead to a human trial.

“..over a billion people on planet earth need new organs… So the notion that we can help all those people with just what we currently do is not correct.,” said Vacanti.

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Joseph Vacanti

John Homans Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Regenerative Medicine