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Regulation of xenotransplantation: Are we asking the right questions?

  • A Series Of Reviews Animal-To-Human Transplants: The Ethics Of Xenotransplantation
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  1. Transplantation Infectious Disease Program, Infectious Disease Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, 02114, Boston, MA, USA

    Jay A. Fishman M.D. (F.A.C.P., Clinical Director)

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His laboratory research focuses on the pathogenesis of infection in the immunocompromised host.

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Fishman, J.A. Regulation of xenotransplantation: Are we asking the right questions?. Sci Eng Ethics 2, 483–485 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02583935

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