Armed with CRISPR and a $38M round, eGe­n­e­sis tack­les the Holy Grail of xeno­trans­plan­ta­tion

The first crude re­search in­volv­ing xeno­trans­plan­ta­tion goes back to the 1960s, when in­ves­ti­ga­tors first ac­tive­ly con­sid­ered the pos­si­bil­i­ties of har­vest­ing or­gans from pri­mates for use in hu­mans. That failed, and sub­se­quent at­tempts run­ning through the mid-90s al­so flopped, with in­com­pat­i­bil­i­ty prov­ing im­pos­si­ble to over­come, while al­so rais­ing some big fears about trans­fer­ring pig virus­es to hu­mans with po­ten­tial­ly cat­a­stroph­ic re­sults.

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