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

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

The same biotechnology company that brought us Dolly the sheep, along with one of its competitors, announced it has now successfully cloned genetically modified pigs. What’s special about these ...

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. That embryo is then ...

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 ...

Andrews' pig kidney is possible because of several new genetic advances including cloning and the gene-editing platform CRISPR, which allowed scientists to modify the organ to make it more ...

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 ...