Why Wait?

Patients linger on lists for long periods of time waiting for an organ that they need to live. Some patients unfortunately don't live long enough for their name to be called. William Edward Beschorner (2010) concluded, based on the 2008 United States Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network of Organ Sharing waiting list for hearts, kidneys, livers, and pancreatic islets, approximately 500,000 transplants or more could be performed annually in the United States and more than 1.3 million transplants could be performed annually in the developed world if organs were available.

So if an animal organ is genetically engineered to meet your needs......WHY WAIT?!? Think about it:)