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

Gene-edited meat is coming to Canada, but without transparency or labeling, consumers won’t know it—threatening the trust ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Breton, North America's leading producer of organic pork, is calling for full transparency in response to the recent approval ...

In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a ...

A new state-of-the-art diagnostic test for animal African trypanosomiasis could detect sentinels of infection in domestic animals and aid control efforts.

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 cleared by ...

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.

Stopping viruses is a much better use of CRISPR. And research is ongoing to make pigs—as well as other livestock—invulnerable to other infections, including African swine fever and influenza.

Seek Labs expanded evaluation of the CRISPR-based systems as anti-viral modalities in pigs infected with ASFV. To this end, the company launched independent in vivo trials.

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 ...