Intensive research is being carried out to enable the transplantation of organs from specially bred pigs to humans. However, the pig genome contains the genomes of various endogenous retroviruses ...

Infectious risk is a function of the infectious exposures of the source animal (swine) and the xenograft recipient, as well as the nature and intensity of the immunosuppressive therapy required to ...

Monkey Knockout In an early step toward developing a potentially invaluable animal model, scientists, for the first time, have genetically modified a nonhuman primate (A.W. Chan et al., "Transgenic ...