Compare And Contrast Theseus And Xenotransplantation

One of the more interesting figures in Greek mythology is known for getting himself in quite a few issues, Daedalus, a brilliant Athenian inventor and craftsman. After being banished to Crete for killing his cousin, building the Labyrinth on the behalf of King Minos, and helping the hero, Theseus, to kill the beast of the Labyrinth, Minotaur, he and his son where imprisoned for rebelling against King Minos for helping Theseus kill the Minotaur. Daedalus, planning for an escape, develops what he believes is a brilliant idea. Daedalus creates a way to fly out of the island of Crete. So he decides to use already loose feathers and wax to create ¨wings¨ to fly. When escaping Daedalus tells his son, Icarus, don't fly too close to the Sun or the
One thing science continues to enhance and desires to improve upon is the practice of organ transplantations. Scientist steadily improve upon the practice but after much failure it was gaining success bit by bit. According to Aseda Tena, the author of the Harvard article, ¨Xenotransplantation: Can pigs really save humans?¨, states that the first ever organs transplanted was the kidneys that was successfully done in the fairly recent years of 1954 (Tena). Although this transplantation was a most needed success the practice of transplantation is still quite a challenging process. Tena reminds the readers that although transplantation is an easy solution to organ failures, that even so a major challenge in transplantation is recipient rejections to the implanted organs. Yet this problem is reduced the through immunosuppressive drugs. As we can see that although there is a major setbacks it is possible to obtain major success, yet there is one idea that the practice of human transplantation that science test cannot shake is the lack of donated
Yet had sparked one's fascination: Thomas Starzl, an expert on organ transplants and renowned physician, is known as ¨the father of modern transplantation¨, conducted one of the firsts implantations of xenografts into human recipients. Starzl experiment revealed the interesting fact that two of the recipients had not refused the liver of the baboon immediately but the organs were ruined due to the immune receptors which were treated with a tacrolimus- based immunosuppressive. Unfortunately, the patients only were able to withstand the effects of the xenograft for one the persons 70 days and the other 26 (“Transplantation Immunology”). While majority believed that due to the similar genetics between the two primates (monkeys and humans) that the immune barriers between would be easier to “knock down” but recent studies has shown that pigs would be more efficient to modify the obstacles which previous experiments could