Life sciences undergo painful genetic modification
Medical researchers helped tame a worldwide pandemic, but they may be powerless against the financial disease rapidly ...
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At meeting on guardrails for gene editing of human embryos, some call for a dead end
At meeting on human embryo editing, CRISPR pioneer says science is a long way from knowing if germline DNA can be safely ...
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A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Hooked to a Human for 10 Days and It Actually Worked
What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...
Researchers Discover Brain Growth Trigger Found Only in Humans
New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...
Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.
Japanese scientists pioneer nonviral gene delivery in primates
Genetic engineering in non-human primates has long been limited by the need for virus-based gene delivery methods. Recently, ...
Glowing Monkeys? Scientists Rewrite the Rules of Primate Genetic Engineering
Japanese researchers used a nonviral piggyBac system to genetically modify cynomolgus monkeys, enabling more accurate disease ...
Human receives pig’s liver transplant for first time
Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig's liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the ...
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Developing nonviral gene delivery system in Primate
Genetic engineering in non-human primates has long been limited by the need for virus-based gene delivery methods. Recently, ...
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First Gene-Modified Pig Liver Transplanted Into a Human
In the current case, the donor liver came from a pig that had been genetically modified to inactivate genes that mediate rejection and to include human transgenes to facilitate compatibility.
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Major medical breakthrough achieved with first pig liver transplant in human
PARIS: Chinese doctors said on Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead ...
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Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...