The need for transplant organs is immense and growing. Some scientists think animal organs might be a good way to increase the supply. Advances in cloning and gene editing have led to breakthroughs.

Pig cloning for organs Researchers say they've taken a major step toward cloning pigs whose hearts, lungs and kidneys could be safely transplanted into humans.

eGenesis scientist Raquel Castro pre-pares pig cells for the cloning process. The first stages entail using the gene- editing technique CRISPR to modify a cell sample.

The breakthrough has spawned ventures to clone pigs for organ transplants, clone genetically altered cows for pharmaceutical purposes and even store the DNA of aging pets for future cloning.

Porcine Possibilities. Courtesy of PPL TherapeuticsA new generation of pigs. Headlines in late summer 2000 introduced long-awaited reports on pig cloning and retroviral transmission to mice, pig cells ...

One genetics expert claimed the success in cloning sheep and pigs brought ever closer the human clone, while leading academic and religious figures expressed concern over the risk of transferring ...

Pigs have been cloned for the first time using methods that may lead to an important new source of human-like organs for transplant, scientists said yesterday. The birth announcement of ...

THE director of the Roslin Institute, creators of Dolly the world's first cloned sheep, yesterday confirmed funding had been redirected away from the controversial pig cloning programme to develop ...

Infigen Inc. last week lost a bid to upset patents held by Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) for use of "proliferating somatic cells for the cloning of non-human animals."Infigen waited too long — more ...

To turn the edited cells into a pig, cloning is required, taking the edited cells and fusing them with a donor egg cell that has had its nucleus removed to create a pig embryo.

CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Last summer, after more than a decade of illness, Lawrence Faucette and his wife, Ann, faced the hard reality that the end of his life was near. He was 58 and ...