Mao Zedong believed that China could leapfrog other developing countries by employing an effectively unlimited supply of human labor.
CryoLife said its supply of human tissue used for surgical procedures would not be affected as it works to address the concerns raised in the letter.
Dr. Reemtsma continued to promote research into xenotransplantation in the belief that there would never be a sufficient supply of human organs.
Charles Murtaugh, a researcher at Harvard University, points out that there is already a huge supply of human eggs that could easily move on to a black market.
The work will spark fresh interest in the use of cloning in medical research, and reignite the controversy over a procedure that demands a supply of human eggs, and the creation and destruction of early stage embryos.
The Daily News reported that Ankiel, in 2004, received 12 months' supply of human growth hormone from a Florida pharmacy that was part of a national, and illegal, prescription drug distribution ring.
Sitting in a dimly lit Russian hotel room last month, Huang Peng, a Chinese prison official who had fled across the border just hours before, spoke matter-of-factly about the supply of human organs for the vast majority of transplants in China.
Since The Daily News reported Sept. 7 that Ankiel received a year's supply of human growth hormone in 2004 from a Florida pharmacy that was the focus of an illegal Internet prescription drug investigation, Ankiel has gone from the Natural to the Albatross, and the Cardinals have fallen with him.
However, the fact that Mr Grimsley is a pitcher, not a stereotypical steroid-inflated hitter, suggests that cheating may be even more widespread than was feared.More troubling still, Mr Grimsley was caught only as a result of investigators tracking a supply of human growth hormone, and not through the supposedly tough new testing regime recently introduced into baseball.
