The latest advance in Crispr technology is a new kind of virus-free gene-edited pig. Scientists are hot on the hunt to figure out a way to transplant pig organs into humans. But a growing concern ...

Egenesis, a startup that raised $38 million in March, just successfully used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to knock out a key virus in piglets. The virus-free pigs could get us a step closer to ...

Genetics outfit Genus is hoping to perfect CRISPR-edited pigs so that they could withstand porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS). One of their directors, Clint Nesbitt, spoke with ...

Well interestingly, pigs actually have kidney function that’s quite similar to human.” Researchers use a CRISPR, which is a genetic editing tool, to edit out genes that would cause a human ...