Scripps Expert Comments on New Effort to Use DNA Editing Tool
Company wants to use CRISPR to grow transplant organs
Company wants to use CRISPR to grow transplant organs
Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer Eric Topol, MD, recently weighed in on an effort by eGenesis of Cambridge, Mass., to use the CRISPR gene editing tool to make pig organs suitable for human transplant.
Dr. Topol, who directs the Scripps Translational Medicine Institute in La Jolla, has no affiliation with eGenesis.
Read the MedCity News article: eGenesis Bets on CRISPR to Domesticate Pig Organs For Safer Xenotransplantation
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