Scientists create safer pig organs with goal of transplants for humans

Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 21:42 in Biology & Nature

(Reuters) - Scientists at a Massachusetts company seeking to make pig organs safe enough to be transplanted into humans have used gene-editing technology to clone piglets that lack a potentially dangerous retrovirus, according to a study released on Thursday.

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