A tiny genetic tweak can make pigs completely resistant to classical swine fever, a major problem for farmers around the world. The same gene edit should also make cattle and sheep resistant to ...

The Canadian government's recent approval of the first gene-edited animal to enter the food system has reignited debates over ...

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.

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A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis just 47 days later after surgeons removed the gradually failing organ. Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a ...

(CNN) — Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was ...

The Canadian government is currently considering approving the entry of gene-edited pigs into the food system. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Using CRISPR ...

Towana Looney became the fifth American to receive a gene-edited pig organ last month and is recovering well. Looney's transplant is the third time a kidney from a gene-edited pig has been ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

NEW YORK (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A woman in the United States has received a one-of-a-kind gene-edited pig kidney transplant, she is the only living person with a functional pig kidney. After years on ...

A genetically edited pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a living patient for the first time. Reports indicate the man is doing well a few weeks on, raising hopes for a wider pool of ...

The pig kidney was specially engineered by researchers at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, biotechnology company eGenesis, which has the potential to propel medicine into a new era in which the limited ...