Re: Complete NZ Listener article on LCT
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Posted by JoeC on 07:30:10 2007/11/27
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Re: Complete NZ Listener article on LCT posted by Al Gordon
"clotting factor sourced from pigs that carry the (PERV) virus has been used in blood transfusions for hundreds of thousands of haemophiliacs, and no one's been infected."
And these were probably not sourced from very "clean" pigs to begin with maybe?
This alone should stop all debate and let LCT get on with human trials.
Is the clotting factor/PERV connection a new discovery? I read on this forum before that other pig tissue such as heart valves or cartilidge were "dead" or "inert", therefore not totally like living islets. (A chink in the armor to the nay-sayers.)
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