Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

United Therapeutics Corporation ... which are development-stage organ products. It has licensing and collaboration agreements with DEKA Research & Development Corp. to develop a semi-disposable ...

In a separate statement, United Therapeutics, the company that genetically engineers ... People for the Ethical Treatment of ...

Scientists can edit the genes of the pig to reduce the risk that a human body will reject its organ. Looney was the first to receive a kidney with 10 gene edits, and United Therapeutics announced ...