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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

With CRISPR technology, scientists can edit pig genes to be more compatible with a human body, or at least that's the hope. More than 100,000 people are on the waiting list to receive a kidney ...

Pigs that are immune to a disease estimated to cost farmers $2.7 billion a year globally look set to become the first genetically modified farm animals to be used for large-scale meat production.

The pigs are a project of eGenesis, co-founded by renowned Harvard bioengineer George Church and one of his protégés, Luhan Yang, which has been steadily developing technology to produce animals ...

A University of Pennsylvania team showed a gene-edited pig liver kept alive in a perfusion chamber could support the circulatory system of a human.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a type of CRISPR gene-edited pig for human consumption. As MIT Technology Review reports, only an extremely limited list of gene-modified animals ...