PIC’s gene-edited pigs aren’t the first to be approved as food in the U.S. In 2020, the FDA approved Revivicor’s Galsafe pigs for use in both medicine and food. Galsafe pigs have been ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to gene-edited pigs for human consumption. PIC, a UK livestock genetics company, has developed gene-edited pigs using CRISPR technology.

The company's first modified pig, the GalSafe single gene knockout, now is bred instead of cloned. If xenotransplantation eventually works, other pigs with the desired gene combinations would be ...

On April 30, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), approved the use of a gene-edited pig to confer resistance to Porcine Reproductive ...

Separately, pigs with various gene modifications for xenotransplant research live on a Revivicor farm in Virginia, including a GalSafe pig that was the source for a recent experimental kidney ...

The company's first modified pig, the GalSafe single gene knockout, now is bred instead of cloned. If xenotransplantation eventually works, other pigs with the desired gene combinations would be ...

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So the first gene that Revivicor inactivated as it began genetically modifying pigs for animal-to-human transplants was the one that produces alpha-gal. While xenotransplants still are experimental, ...