Globally, people get animal protein mostly from chickens, with pigs and cattle in second and third place. A 2023 report ...

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 ...

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 ...

The kidneys used in the new surgeries are modified using the gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 to: Remove certain pig genes that produce sugars with antibodies our immune systems react to.

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