Xenotransplantation
Abstract Xenotransplantation is transferring of animal’s organ to human being in order to save the life. In order to concentrate why Xenotransplantation should not be encourage into the human life, a research from internet and books was done to find out more information on Xenotransplantation. This research argues that Xenotransplantation should not be encouraged to human life. Xenotransplantation does save human’s life and increases their life span. ... Secondly Xenotransplantation is also more expensive than human to human transplantation, which is one of the problems to human. ... Moreover, not all the experiment in Xenotransplantation is successful so they all have to abandon the animals that are used in the experiment. ... Overall, this Xenotransplantation is not saving human life, yet destroying animals and human life at the same, thus, this transplantation should not be encouraged. ... Xenotransplantation is one of the examples of how much the technology has been developed. Xenotransplantation is the most potentially explosive issue of the biotechnology revolution, as mentioned by Calamai (2000). Xenotransplantation is transplant of animal’s organs, tissues or cells with the purpose of substitute with the failing organs in the human body in order to safe human life. Should this Xenotransplantation be encouraged into the human life? Xenotransplantation is able to save the human life who is suffering from damaged of the organs in their body by replacing the damaged organ with undamaged, tested animal’s organs. ... Background: Transplants of organs and tissue from animals to humans have a long history but it was not until the 1960s that they moved from simple trial and error to systematic scientific study stated in Sci/tech the history of Xenotransplantation. ... When this Xenotransplantation was first introduced, it was only to animal - animal transplantation was experiment. ... The most popular Xenotransplantation case was the cloning ‘knockout’ pigs, which was lack of one copy of a gene that prompted that human immune system to reject transplanted pig organ. ... Counter argument: The opposition argue, that Xenotransplantation is suitable for human being. As stated in “Is Xenotransplantation Need?”(2003) Xenotransplantation could potentially treat hemophilia, AIDS, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson and Huntington disease. Xenotransplantation could be the solution for all of the people who suffering from disease that all the scientists and doctors can’t find the medicine for.