“If there are multiple cuts in the genome at the same time, chromosomes rearrange themselves.

eGenesis is working on such modifications, too. Reminds me of the book “Never Let Me Go”.

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With the actual risk of PERVs uncertain, some worry that the extra editing will needlessly add complexity to the already-difficult organ development process, especially if the regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) insist on PERV-free pigs for future human experiments.

But heart and muscle (myocardial) cells are long-lived, so by performing the edits in these the effects will stick around much longer.

But those are small numbers of cells within a protective capsule, Denner notes.

An ethical-legal ‘governor’ mechanism also needs to be created and adopted quickly in the United States, in order to temper the ‘rush to transplant’ these ‘humanesque’ organs or tissues from a porcine growth and development ‘incubator’ into patients; it is both ethically responsible and professionally obligatory to “above all, do no harm”! To produce piglets, the researchers then used a standard cloning technique: They inserted the DNA-containing nuclei of these edited cells into egg cells taken from the ovaries of pigs at a Chinese slaughterhouse. Colleagues keep asking me when we’re going to do it.”. The oldest pigs are nearly 5 months old, or adolescents; 15 remain alive. They started with cells from adult pigs, and used an electrical jolt to fuse them with pig ova whose DNA had been removed. Knocking out three in particular could protect pig organs from being attacked by the human immune system, he said; lab macaques that received kidneys from the pigs have survived as long as 499 days. © 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science. That wasn’t unexpected; for all the hype around CRISPR, it isn’t perfect. And regulators require stringent tests in lab primates before a single patient could get a CRISPR’d pig organ; that will take years. They allowed each egg to develop into an embryo and implanted it in the uterus of a surrogate mother. “Before our study, there was huge scientific uncertainty about whether the pig [produced after this editing] is viable,” Yang says. Large porcine organs, which will likely require immune-suppressing drugs to keep the patients’ bodies from attacking them, might pose a greater risk of PERV transmission.

Pig organs, meanwhile, can grow to a conveniently human size. Scientists who dream of transplanting organs from pigs into people have long faced a nagging question: What about PERVs?

To make PERV-free pigs, they needed to start with genetically normal cells straight from a living pig. “One half of all myocardial cells remain functional from birth throughout the entire lifecycle of a human being," says Christian Kupatt, lead author of the study. Using CRISPR gene editing, researchers from the company and several academic labs created dozens of apparently healthy pigs with no trace of PERV genes. Laika and 36 other designer piglets are completely free of it.

“And it will add to the cost of providing pigs for the initial clinical trials.”, “At this moment, I don’t think we are very worried about PERV,” adds Muhammad Mohiuddin, a cardiac transplant surgeon at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. AAAS is a partner of HINARI, AGORA, OARE, CHORUS, CLOCKSS, CrossRef and COUNTER. Apparently, in its zeal to attack so many PERV genes, CRISPR had shredded the cells’ genomes — fatally. “If FDA mandates us, ‘To move forward you need to get rid of this PERV since George Church has shown you how to do it,’” he says, “then of course, yes.”, PERVs aren’t the only thing standing in the way of transplant-ready pig organs. The research was published in the journal Nature Medicine. “We have a pig we are very confident we can make work for kidney transplants,” Tector said.

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So if we change the genome of a myocardial cell, the correction is a long-term success, in contrast to the results of previous methods.”. The same year, they showed that CRISPR could knock out PERV genes at all 62 sites in the pig genome—the most widespread CRISPR editing feat to date.

And CRISPR did not change any DNA it wasn’t supposed to; there were no “off-target” effects.
As is typical with cloning, very few of the cloned embryos were healthy enough to implant into sows, and few implanted embryos resulted in births. Other genetic changes will be necessary. Horrible to create life with the intention of destroying it. This newborn is a pig, and it’s the first to be born with dozens of genetic changes that could enable scientists to turn swine into a source of organs for human transplants, Yang and her colleagues reported on Thursday in Science. There are additional Olympic-level hurdles to overcome before people facing death from organ failure get replacement kidneys, hearts, livers, or lungs from the species that provides their bacon and pork chops. Because it’s a genetic condition, DMD is a prime target for treatment with the gene-editing tool CRISPR. Remnants of ancient viral infections, genes from porcine endogenous retroviruses—known by their unfortunate acronym—are scattered throughout the pig genome, and could infect a person who one day receives a pig’s heart, lung, or kidney as a replacement or temporary organ.


"The genome of a cell is used for protein biosynthesis as long as the cell is alive, and once a cell has been affected by the therapy, it remains corrected. 08 December 2003. Then CRISPR came along. Importantly, this treatment avoids one of the main issues with CRISPR gene-editing – transience. The concern about PERVs has been hard to dismiss, however, especially because studies have shown that the viruses can infect human cells in a dish.

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