Lord Robert Winston, Professor of Science and Society at Imperial, says: “Imperial scientists are attempting to incorporate new genes into the cells which make the sperm of young pigs, so that when these animals are adult and mate, they will have offspring whose tissues can be tolerated by the human immune system”.
- Professor Andrew George’s group in the Faculty of Medicine’s Molecular Immunotherapy Laboratory is examining the use of genetic modification to induce tolerance, including during xenotransplantation.
