On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

A million-dollar facility will soon be built in Texas that will breed genetically-modified pigs for medical science.

A biotechnology company making headlines for its work in organ transplantation is planning to construct an estimated $96 million facility in northeast Houston to breed genetically engineered animals, ...

First, eGenesis was able to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology to make 69 precise edits to the pig’s DNA – in some areas, snipping ...

The virus, which is part of the pigs' DNA, has been an issue for human-pig transplants in the past because of concerns that it could infect humans. Inactivating the virus could ease those concerns.

A Massachusetts man suffering from end-stage kidney disease has become the second living person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, marking a major milestone in the field of ...

announced on March 14 that it had created the first pigs cloned from adult cells. Independent DNA testing of blood from the five female piglets–Millie, Christa, Alexis, Carrel, and Dotcom ...

A type of DNA sequence that is composed of sequences from two or more different sources or organisms, such as human and pig sources, or synthetic (lab-made) sequences and microorganisms.

It has gone even further with a test on the chicken ham to detect pig DNA. But here's the problem. On Jan 15, Malaysiakini reported that the chicken ham did have a halal certificate from the ...

Using the gene-editing technique CRISPR, scientists can modify the pig’s DNA. eGenesis workers make more than 60 edits to help manage a host of potential issues including rejection, size of the ...