Author: James GallagherDate: 21/10/2011
Time:02:20 GMT
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15385648
This article is about transplanting animal organs wich means that people can for example take out a heart of an animal and place into a human body. The author says that using animals as source of organs for transplantation into humans was once one of the next big things: a solution to transplant waiting list. In the UK there are 8,000 people on the list, and three of them die every day. This type of operatio seems to be better than the other kinds that are being used: In August one man had his heart replaced with a mechanical one, while stem cells have been used for simple structures such as the windpipe. However, using stem cells to build more complicated organs such as a heart is a long way off and mechanical body parts are used in the short term before an actual transportation.
I was a but confused of what I should think about the article because it has some positive and also some negative things in it. I think that it is good that the doctors and scientists came up with this method of operating because many lives can be saved and people had a better chance of surviving and getting a new organ after their old one has been hurt or damaged. However, at the same time I also think it's wrong to kill the animals and take their organs because we are jusy using them.
Time:02:20 GMT
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15385648
This article is about transplanting animal organs wich means that people can for example take out a heart of an animal and place into a human body. The author says that using animals as source of organs for transplantation into humans was once one of the next big things: a solution to transplant waiting list. In the UK there are 8,000 people on the list, and three of them die every day. This type of operatio seems to be better than the other kinds that are being used: In August one man had his heart replaced with a mechanical one, while stem cells have been used for simple structures such as the windpipe. However, using stem cells to build more complicated organs such as a heart is a long way off and mechanical body parts are used in the short term before an actual transportation.
I was a but confused of what I should think about the article because it has some positive and also some negative things in it. I think that it is good that the doctors and scientists came up with this method of operating because many lives can be saved and people had a better chance of surviving and getting a new organ after their old one has been hurt or damaged. However, at the same time I also think it's wrong to kill the animals and take their organs because we are jusy using them.
cool i really liked the artical and yes i do agree that it is unfair to kill animal and take their organs.
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