The FDA greenlights α-Gal allergy-safe meat, but its makers have organs for transplants in their sights.
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Dolgin, E. First GM pigs for allergies. Could xenotransplants be next?. Nat Biotechnol 39, 397–400 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-00885-9
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