They then transfer the modified embryos into female pigs and continue breeding the female’s gene-edited offspring. In the end, this produces a lineage of pigs that have both copies of their ...

Researchers have developed gene-edited chickens that are partially resistant to bird flu. The law has changed to allow the commercial development and sale of gene-edited food in England.

A busy time for gene-edited xenotransplantation While CRISPR editing has brought new hope to the possibility of xenotransplantation, even recent trials show great caution is still warranted. In ...

Scientists are also exploring using gene-edited pig hearts in people. So far, two such transplants have been carried out in patients who were too ill to be eligible for a human donor heart.

Slayman was on a waiting list for another kidney when his doctors suggested the possibility of receiving an experimental kidney from a gene-edited pig. “I saw [the transplant] not only as a way ...

Two patients have received gene-edited pig hearts at the University of Maryland Medical Center. One survived for about two months in 2022; the other for nearly six weeks in 2023. Williams said ...

62-year old Richard Slayman of Weymouth, Massachusetts, who has been living with end-stage kidney disease, received the gene edited pig kidney on Saturday, March 16 at Massachusetts General Hospital.

(Massachusetts General Hospital/AP) After once losing hope because of end-stage kidney disease, a 62-year-old man is now the first living person to receive a genetically edited kidney from a pig ...

China’s He Jiankui, who used Crispr to edit genome, says he is working on genetic diseases and suggests human embryo gene editing will one day be accepted A Chinese scientist who was imprisoned ...

A growing number of US brewers are now using GM yeast to make their beers. Gene-edited food can now be developed and sold in England, but not in the rest of the UK. The UK government has asked ...

Our bodies are unique. Our cancers are too. Our bodies are unique. Our cancers are too. Error undermines finding of health risks in first gene-edited babies Error ...

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