NEW YORK CITY -- Groundbreaking surgery by doctors at NYU Langone successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney and thymus into the body of a man who is brain dead. NYU Langone says it is a big ...
Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Makana™ Therapeutics, a global leader in the field of xenotransplantation, announced today that the company’s scientists have discovered that pigs contain a fourth gene that ...
A cure for heart failure could be on the horizon after scientists inserted a gene into ailing pigs, allowing their hearts to pump blood at normal levels again. Researchers at the University of Utah ...
Christopher Rudge was a member of a research team that designed and convened an Australian citizens' jury on genome editing in 2021-22. This was funded by the Medical Research Future Fund. In a world ...
US researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.