Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys gain FDA approval.

To solve the problem of hyperacute rejection, companies such as eGenesis and United Therapeutics have used the ...

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

In experiments, scientists have also used CRISPR to rid pigs of the viruses that prevent their organs from being transplanted into humans. Ecologists are exploring ways for the technology to help ...

Church and his colleagues used CRISPR/Cas9 to inactivate 62 of the pig’s endogenous retroviruses in embryos. In a separate set of pig embryos, the team modified genes coding for the cell membrane ...

First gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a brain-dead person In a medical first, a research team in China has successfully stitched a CRISPR gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead patient ...

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing exploits the CRISPR-Cas system to modify a genome in a targeted manner. Guided by RNA, the Cas9 endonuclease breaks DNA at a target sequence. Imprecise repair of the ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

Egenesis, a startup that raised $38 million in March, just successfully used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to knock out a key virus in piglets. The virus-free pigs could get us a step closer to ...

The milestone in xenotransplantation – cross-species transplants – relied on cutting-edge biotechnologies, including the use of CRISPR gene editing to remove harmful pig genes and add certain ...

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world. The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell.

New CRISPR tool enables more seamless gene editing -- and improved disease modeling Date: March 20, 2025 Source: Yale University Summary: Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR ...