The first surgery in a clinical trial testing the safety and efficacy of gene-edited pig kidney transplants in patients with ...

Scientists for the first time have created genetically engineered pigs whose organs lack a gene that triggers rejection by the human immune system, a key advance toward the goal of developing ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Groundbreaking surgery by doctors at NYU Langone successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney and thymus into the body of a man who is brain dead. NYU Langone says it is a big ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Makana™ Therapeutics, a global leader in the field of xenotransplantation, announced today that the company’s scientists have discovered that pigs contain a fourth gene that ...

Christopher Rudge was a member of a research team that designed and convened an Australian citizens' jury on genome editing in 2021-22. This was funded by the Medical Research Future Fund. In a world ...

A cure for heart failure could be on the horizon after scientists inserted a gene into ailing pigs, allowing their hearts to pump blood at normal levels again. Researchers at the University of Utah ...

US researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.

A company used CRISPR to make the animals resistant to deadly diseases, but watchdogs say viruses are not the problem. By Andrew Paul Published Feb 23, 2024 2:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Groundbreaking surgery by doctors at NYU Langone successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney and thymus into the body of a man who is brain dead. NYU Langone says it is ...