With more than 100,000 Americans waiting on a new organ, xenotransplantation is a leading example of how editing animals ...

The transplant, part of a three-person compassionate use study, used a pig kidney with 69 gene edits provided by US-based ...

However, in the past three years, half a dozen such procedures have taken place in the United States using pigs that have been genetically modified, so their organs are more compatible with humans’.

Using the gene-editing technique CRISPR, scientists can modify the pig’s DNA. eGenesis workers make more than 60 edits to help manage a host of potential issues including rejection, size of the ...

A biotechnology company in Research Triangle Park has taken a major step to develop a new option for patients in need of a ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.

Looney, the woman who received a gene-edited pig kidney late last year, meanwhile, feels like “superwoman,” she told the Associated Press’ Lauran Neergaard in late January. Doctors say she ...

Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a ...