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Article: Smart, social and just possibly a savior. (using a baboon's liver to replace a human liver) (Interview)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- July 13, 1992
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The operation was a first--a baboon liver replacing a man's liver--and it prompted a barrage of animal-rights protests. U.S. News's Steven Findlay discussed the event with two pioneers of animal-to-human transplants--Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Keith Reemtsma of New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center--while Doug Podolsky interviewed Shirley Strum, an anthropologist at the University of California at San Diego, who has studied baboons since 1972.
Conversation with surgeons Reemtsma and Starzl
* What's the next step? STARZL: If this works, I foresee a large-scale movement toward the use of animal organs. Organs ...