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  MIT Technology Review: The gene-edited pig heart given to a dying patient was infected with a pig virus (4th May 2022)
  

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  The Hastings Center: Xenotransplantation: Three Areas of Concern (19th January 2022)
  

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  The Counter: FDA approved its first GM pig for consumption, potentially safe for red meat allergy sufferers (15th December 2020)
  

• Bloomberg: China and the U.S. are racing to create a 'super pig' (3rd December 2019)
  

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  ArsTechnica: Part cow, part… bacterium? Biotech company makes heifer of gene-editing blunder (1st September 2019)
  

• Technology Review: Gene-edited cattle have a major screwup in their DNA (29th August 2019)
  

• The Harvard Gazette: Pig organs for human patients: A challenge fit for CRISPR (30th May 2018)
  

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  The Guardian: Undoing extinction - let's talk about the mammophant in the room (22nd February 2017)
  

• in Press articles
  Medium.com: How mammoth cloning became fake news (19th February 2017)
  

• Popular Science: No, the wooly mammoth won't actually be resurrected by 2019 (17th February 2017)
  

• The Guardian: Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal (16th February 2017)
  

• US News: What Ever Happened to Cloning? (4th August 2016)
  

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  BioNews: Will organs from GM pigs save our bacon? (2nd November 2015)
  

• Radio New Zealand: Transgenic cow research branded a 'disaster' (23rd October 2015)
  

• in Press articles
  MIT Technology Review: First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in China (19th October 2015)
  

• Farmers Guardian: Celebs urged to boycott micropig 'trend' as animal welfare example (9th October 2015)
  

• in Press articles
  Nature: Gene-editing record smashed in pigs (6th October 2015)
  

• The Observer: Chinese gene-modified micropig pets with 1,000 pund price spark animal rights outrage (3rd October 2015)
  

• in Press articles
  MotherJones: This Scientist Might End Animal Cruelty - Unless GMO Hardliners Stop Him (July 2015)
  

• Nature: Super-muscly pigs created by small genetic tweak (30th June 2015)
  

• in Press articles
  Daily Mail: What a porker! Scientists breed MUSCLY PIGS that could one day lead to super-lean bacon (30th June 2015)
  

• The Guardian: Could these piglets become Britain's first commercially viable GM animals? (23rd June 2015)
  

• EurActiv: Parliament demands moratorium on cloned animal products (19th June 2015)
  

• EurActiv: Parliament makes 'final offer' on novel foods, cloning (17th June 2015)
  

• San Jose Mercury News: Synthetic biologist aims to create pig with human lungs (14th November 2014)
  

• MIT Technology Review: On the Horns of the GMO Dilemma (2nd September 2014)
  

• in Press articles
  ECNS: GM cow a step closer to commercial pastures (15th March 2014)
  

• Farming UK: No food from cloned animals, MEPs tell Commission (24th February 2014)
  

• Daily Mail: The GM monkeys that could hold the cure to DEMENTIA: Twin macaques are first created using 'cut and paste' gene-slicing technique (31st January 2014)
  

• BBC: China cloning on an 'industrial scale' (14th January 2014)
  

• in Press articles
  UK Farming: Animal welfare groups react to EU cloning proposals (2nd January 2014)
  

• The Independent: Team of scientists create cloned glow-in-the-dark rabbits (12th August 2013)
  

• Taiwan Today: Taiwan scientist makes advances in transgenic pigs (22nd July 2013)
  

• The Telegraph: Scientists design 'health and safety' cow with no horns (28th April 2013)
  

• Belarussian Telegraph Agency: Belarusian-Russian transgenic programs for mass lactoferrin production (15th April 2013)
  

• in Press articles
  Public Service Europe: Are patents on apes morally acceptable? (8th March 2013)
  

• BBC: Salmon steak from GM fish could soon be on your plate (23rd January 2013)
  

• Nature News: Politics holds back animal engineers (17th October 2012)
  

• Nature News: Animals engineered with pinpoint accuracy (2nd October 2012)
  

• BBC: GM cows make 'low allergy' milk (2nd October 2012)
  

• Los Angeles Times: Scientists fret over FDA slowness on genetically altered animals (1st October 2012)
  

• SciDevNet: First GM camels to be engineered for drug production (3rd September 2012)
  

• The Sunday Telegraph: Cows genetically modified to improve flavour (26th August 2012)
  

• in Press articles
  Daily Mail: 'Frankenstein' meat could get go-ahead in EU: Safety fears over the use of GM animals (14th July 2012)
  

• Daily Mail: GM research sends animal testing to a 30-year high as nearly 4m are subject to scientific experiments (11th July 2012)
  

• The Telegraph: Will the first cloned British showjumper live up to his genes? (26th June 2012)
  

• Nature News: Model pigs face messy path (26th June 2012)
  

• The Telegraph: Cows genetically modified to produce healthier milk (18th June 2012)
  

• XinhuaNet: Genetically engineered, low-lactose dairy calf bred in China (11th June 2012)
  

• The Telegraph: GM lamb with healthy fish fat on Chinese menu (24th April 2012)
  

• Reuters: Death knell may sound for Canada's GMO pigs (2nd April 2012)
  

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