In 2015 the Church lab announced it had CRISPR’d out 62 PERV genes in pig kidney cells growing in lab dishes. It was a record, and it still stands.

At the time of their approval, Galsafe pigs weren’t edited using CRISPR. However, that has since changed, a spokesperson for United Therapeutics, which owns Revivicor, told Gizmodo in an email.

The pig donor was a clone created using the same process that produced Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal. The clones were created using pig cells gene-edited by CRISPR technology.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved CRISPR gene-edited pigs for human consumption. As MIT Technology Review reports, only an extremely limited list of gene-modified animals are ...

That lack of transparency is precisely what Quebec-based duBreton, North America’s leading organic pork producer, is warning ...

With CRISPR technology, scientists can edit pig genes to be more compatible with a human body, or at least that's the hope.But a future of endless kidneys bred from pigs is still far away.

The final tally to obtain approval from the FDA for the CRISPR-edited pigs was $200,000. This included two years of feed and labour costs and extensive data collection, including expensive molecular ...

Scientists are using CRISPR technology to make pigs immune to a deadly virus—and they’re hoping for FDA approval by early next year. Sarah Kuta - Daily Correspondent. February 27, 2024.

A company used CRISPR to make the animals resistant to deadly diseases, but watchdogs say viruses are not the problem. By Andrew Paul Published Feb 23, 2024 2:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science ...

A new type of gene editing hopes to tackle the fatal disease by creating CRISPR pigs that are immune – and it’s expected they could reach the market within two years.

The world’s first transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a live human was announced last week. Champions of xenotransplantation regard it as the solution to organ shortages across the world ...