PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - David Shaw AU - Wybo Dondorp AU - Niels Geijsen AU - Guido de Wert TI - Creating human organs in chimaera pigs: an ethical source of immunocompatible organs? AID - 10.1136/medethics-2014-102224 DP - 2015 Dec 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 970--974 VI - 41 IP - 12 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/12/970.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/12/970.full SO - J Med Ethics2015 Dec 01; 41 AB - New techniques in regenerative medicine may soon enable the creation of human organs inside animals using induced pluripotent stem cells. This technology has the potential to solve the organ scarcity problem by providing a limitless source of personalised organs for transplantation, but also raises several ethical issues, particularly concerning animal welfare, the ‘human features’ problem and human dignity.