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Question: Hello, this is Harshita. The question that I want to ask you is: if you could transplant cells from donor body to the patient body so can you use that same method to transplant body parts easily or would it be harder in your opinion?
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Sophie commented on :
I would like to add here that the people who need organ transplants is much higher than organ donors right now so scientists are trying to find new ways to try and construct organs that could be transplanted to help with this problem. Some researchers are looking to use stem cells for this, but the tricky thing is making a bunch of cells become a fully formed organ in the lab. There have even been studies where pigs have been used to try and grow the organs that could be used for humans. There would obviously be a lot of preparation steps before any organ like that would be transplanted into a human. It wouldn’t go straight between. But they are some other ways people are looking into organ transplants