BioTransplant: Turned on to Tolerance

Thousands die each year of end-stage organ failure. Transplantation is the preferred therapy, but there is a chronic shortage of human organs and organ rejection remains a problem. Bringing xenotransplantation to market has become a big company affair, but BioTransplant is a biotech still looking to win a piece of the market through an unusual partnership and unique technology.

by Antonio Regalado

Two points of consensus in the field of xenotransplantation—the use of animal organs in humans—are that the market is huge and that too much has been promised of current technology.

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