Since the HIV epidemic began, those in the United States diagnosed with HIV have been barred from donating organs or having their organs donated. That is about to change when Johns Hopkins performs the first kidney and liver transplants from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients. At the height of the AIDS epidemic twenty-eight years ago, […]
At the most recent conference at the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. George Church of Harvard Medical School presented his use of the new gene-editing method known as CRISPR to alter many individual genes in pig embryos. These genes’ elimination, in an unprecedented number through Crispr technology, has the potential to make pig-to-human organ transplants much […]
