Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans.

Advances in cloning and gene editing have led to breakthroughs. advertisement CNN More people need transplants than there are organ donors. Pigs might be a solution Story by Jen Christensen, CNN ...

The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise ...

Ironically, one of the most speculative applications envisioned for animal cloning is the one that has received the most publicity. In theory, the ability to clone and genetically modify pigs ...

PPL says the successful cloning of the pigs opens the door to producing modified pigs whose organs and cells can be transplanted into humans. The method used to produce the piglets differs from ...

A new generation of pigs. Headlines in late summer 2000 introduced long-awaited reports on pig cloning and retroviral transmission to mice, pig cells healing rat spinal cords, and a gaff by Dolly dad ...

Breakthrough in pig-to-human transplants with new test ... said his team would use still inefficient cloning technology to generate only “the founder animals”, from which future genetically ...

To protect the genetic resources of the Shaziling pig, the breeding station initiated the somatic cell cloning experiment with support from a research team led by Yin Yulong, a Chinese Academy of ...

The European Union assembly on Tuesday tightened a 2013 proposal by EU regulators that would provisionally prohibit the cloning of some animals -- cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and horses -- and the ...