Pigs Solve A Major Medical Problem

Between 1991 and present day, the number of people on organ transplant lists has grown six fold, from roughly 23,000 per year to over 121,000. That’s right, enough to fill a large football stadium!

Unfortunately though, both donor and transplant operations during the same time have only doubled.

 

Every year this equates to roughly 8,000 people passing away while waiting for an organ transplant, which is a major problem the biotech industry has been trying to frantically solve.

Scientists and doctors are taking two primary approaches. The first has been to attempt to develop human organs leveraging 3D printing and