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 ...

In December 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) certified these so-called GalSafe pigs as fit for human consumption and therapeutic use. Although Revivicor doesn’t intend to produce ...

While xenotransplants still are experimental, Revivicor’s “GalSafe” pigs won Food and Drug Administration approval in 2020 to be used as a source of food, and a potential source for human ...

Pigs with the genetic modification are known as GalSafe pigs and are made by Revivicor Inc, a subsidiary of the US biotech United Therapeutics. Research in the mid-2010s indicated that ...

The kidney and thymus gland transplanted into the patient came from a “GalSafe” pig, a genetically modified animal by the biotech company Revivicor, which was given the green light by US ...

The genetically modified pigs, called GalSafe, were approved by the FDA this past December as a source for medicines and food. The gene-edited kidney functioned immediately and continued to filter ...

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 ...