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Gene editing could pave way for pig organ transplants: U.S. study

Reuters: Science - Posted: October 12th, 2015, 1:35pm UTC

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have used a new gene editing technique to trim away potentially harmful virus genes that have impeded the use of pig organs for transplants in humans.br clear='all'/img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654220/s/4a9c48c1/sc/14/mf.gif' border='0'/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Qcn1kmno7hY:nlqIHMwCxMs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Qcn1kmno7hY:nlqIHMwCxMs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=Qcn1kmno7hY:nlqIHMwCxMs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Qcn1kmno7hY:nlqIHMwCxMs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=Qcn1kmno7hY:nlqIHMwCxMs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/Qcn1kmno7hY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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