LONDON - claims in the British media this week that the government is ready to give fire green transplantation of organs from genetically modified pigs in human patients were dismissed as "pure speculation" by a Ministry of Health official. The official said a decision will be announced in 1997.
The London Times and the BBC reported yesterday that the government had accepted the recommendation of an inquiry it was safe to advancing transplants. They reported that the inquiry, chaired by Ian Kennedy, professor of medical law and ethics at the College, London King raised the issue that pig organs could spread to humans potentially dangerous animal viruses. Nevertheless, the Committee has concluded that neither the security nor the ethical issues blocking the way for pig to human transplants. Transgenic pigs are a regulatory protein that helps prevent the immune system from attacking a transplanted organ.
A Ministry of Health official has neither confirmed nor denied that the government planned to approve pigs to humans. "The report will be published in the new year, and we will have to wait until then," he said. A spokesman Imutran, the company based in Cambridge UK, which developed transgenic pigs, says the company n has no information on the content of the report. "speculation is new for us," she said.
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