These miniature pigs are part of a bold scientific experiment that takes advantage of breakthroughs in cloning and gene editing to realize the centuries-old dream of xenotransplantation — the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Pig kidney transplant gives woman a second chance at life 03:08. A grandmother died on Sunday, months after she received a combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant ...

Advances in cloning and gene editing have led to breakthroughs. Some scientists think animal organs might be a good way to increase the supply. More people need transplants than there are organ ...

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 ...

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 had ...