Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thank goodness for people like Kat. The woman saw a helpless young pig in need and decided to lend a hand! The piglet had fallen ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While research on human-pig chimeras is on an indefinite pause, xenotransplantation is moving ahead. wildpixel/iStock via Getty ...
Dr. Robert Redfield, left, a UW Hospital transplant surgeon, and UW-Madison gene-editing scientist Dhanu Shanmuganayagam evaluate pigs at the university's Swine Research and Teaching Center near ...
More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a new heart, kidney or some other organ. Many will die waiting. Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs that ...
Towana Looney knew that the first four people who ever received an organ from a pig died within two months. But the Gadsden, Alabama, woman was still game to try it herself. After eight years on ...
Growing up in Iowa, where there are more pigs than people, I developed an affection for these smart, curious, and complex animals. I was recently reminded of the appeal of pigs after talking to a ...