Man-beast: a worker at the Institute for Animal Breeding at the German Agricultural Research Centre in Mariansee, near Hanover, holds Germany's first transgenetical pig, an animal whose organs could theoretically be transplanted into humans without the immune system immediately rejecting them. So-called xenotransplants are aimed at alleviating the worldwide shortage of human donor organs, and the technology is well advanced - the Mariansee institute is the fifth place in the world to have bred such a genetically manipulated animal.

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Quite apart from the immorality of using animals as spare-part factories, transgenic organ donation is dangerous to humans too. There will always be serious incompatability problems between species which cannot be overcome satisfactorily. It would be better to research more reliable organ replacements...