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.

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 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 ...

Of the billion pigs in the world, about half are in China; the US comes in a distant second, with 80 million. Recently, there’s been a lot of fairly silly news about genetically modified animals.

The only limit to CRISPR’s abilities, it seems, could be scientists’ imaginations. Editing out disease There is a deadly virus that causes porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), which ...

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 company used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to reduce the chances of the patient's body rejecting the new kidney and improve compatibility.

I n a new test of xenotransplantation, a medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital announced Thursday that, for the first time, it had transplanted a kidney from a CRISPR gene-edited pig into ...

R ick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, has died, according to a statement from his family and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he ...