It’s opening new fields of research which ultimately can lead to the cure of cancer. The procedure, if done safely, can cure diseases. Some animals are good at attcking disease and their cells inserted into humans can act as a vaccine. The human lifespan may be prolonged because______. The biggest positive effect of xenotransplantation is that people wait less time for an organ transplant which means less probability to die. There is a great supply of animal organs since humans have control over them. Pigs, for example, have very much in common with humans and heal heart valves are being replaced …show more content…
Since transferring anything from one animal to a human is very unsanitary, there are high risks of infection and rejection because human cells are different from animals. The immune system can reject anything that enters the body that seems foreign. Also, Xenotransplantation is costly and procedures usually need to be repeated more than once. The expenses are necessary because a person's life span can shorten from a dying animal organ. A common opposition to xenotransplantation is the concern of killing animals for human use when it's unnecessary. For xenotransplantation, animals’ lifestyles need to be strictly monitored and it ruins their natural life cycle. People worry about mixing species because it goes against