How to Use xenotransplantation in a Sentence

xenotransplantation

noun

• In the area of xenotransplantation, opponents have questioned harms that may come to the pigs.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
• 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, 31 Oct. 2023
• In the late 2000s, there was almost a frenzy around xenotransplantation.
  — Deeptee Jain, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• In the long term, xenotransplantation may be key to ending organ shortages.
  — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
• There is still a lot of work to do before xenotransplantation becomes routine.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• There are no easy answers: xenotransplantation won't be a viable solution for at least a decade.
  — Ike Brannon, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• 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, 13 Dec. 2017
• This was not the first successful xenotransplantation of a working organ.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 12 Jan. 2022
• Advances in xenotransplantation have been made in recent decades.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
• 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, 20 Jan. 2022
• But as technology has advanced, so has the field of xenotransplantation.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
• Anyone wishing to succeed at xenotransplantation has to come up with strategies for blocking or sidestepping them.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
• 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, 20 Aug. 2012
• 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, 27 Dec. 2022
• The field of xenotransplantation, or transplanting organs across species, has made serious strides.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 30 May 2019
• There are also reasons to believe xenotransplantation could work better in human trials than in monkeys, the panelists said.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 4 Apr. 2022
• The pig-to-human transplant is a hopeful sign that xenotransplantation – the process of transplanting non-human cells and organs into humans – may be viable after years of failures.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Bennett’s transplant was a milestone in the field of xenotransplantation, the sourcing of animal organs to address the human organ supply crisis.
  — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 6 May 2022
• Researchers have been working for decades on xenotransplantation, or the transplantation of an organ between two species, amid an organ shortage.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
• But pig kidneys that filter human urine and pig hearts that beat inside human bodies haven’t yet fulfilled xenotransplantation’s promise.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2023
• 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, 20 Oct. 2021
• 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, 20 Oct. 2021
• In the race to solve the organ shortage, xenotransplantation is like the slow and steady tortoise, still taking small steps after a long run-up, while organ engineering is more like a sprinting hare, racing towards a still-distant finish line.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2012
• 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, 21 Mar. 2024
• Since the early days of xenotransplantation, researchers and surgeons have seen pigs (specifically miniature pigs) rather than primates as the best potential organ donors for humans.
  — Joshua Mezrich, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• Advances in gene editing techniques such as the one used in Mr. Bennett’s pig organ have revived hopes in recent years that clinical trials of xenotransplantation could be possible.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus and Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• For decades, the Maryland group and others have been exploring xenotransplantation, or transplanting animal organs into people, as a way to ease the donor organ shortage.
  — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
• For decades, scientists have dreamed of xenotransplantation: using animals to solve the shortage of organs available for human transplant.
  — Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2021
• But Bennett's death did not discourage the field of xenotransplantation, Mohiuddin said.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
• And xenotransplantation – the process by which nonhuman animal organs are transplanted into humans – opened doors for all scientists in this field.
  — Doris Taylor, Fortune Well, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024