It follows the first ever transplant earlier this year of a gene-edited pig liver into a human cancer patient. Previously, the lack of successful long-term animal tests on gene-edited pig organs ...

An organ transplantation research team from Tongji Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan has achieved a major breakthrough, with a gene-edited pig kidney surviving in ...

The most common method of disease transmission is direct pig-to-pig contact, with the highest risk of introducing a disease usually through infected stock. As well as direct pig-to-pig contact, other ...