THE XENO CHRONICLES: Two Years on the Frontier of Medicine Inside Harvard's Transplant Research Lab
G. Wayne Miller, . . Public Affairs, $26 (320pp) ISBN 978-1-58648-242-8
Don't get too attached to Goldie, the baby pig traveling with her teddy bear in the opening pages of Miller's behind-the-scenes look at Harvard's experiments in xenotransplantation, cross-species organ transplants. She's been specially bred to create body parts that won't be automatically rejected by other species, and before too long her heart and kidneys will be given to baboons so scientists can monitor their viability. Xenotransplantation (xeno for short) has the potential to radically transform medical practice, and Miller (who wrote about the early days of open-heart surgery in
Reviewed on: 04/11/2005
Genre: Nonfiction