Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

Fans of the British animated series “Peppa Pig” are in for an exciting treat as its matriarch, Mummy Pig, announced that they are expecting an addition to their family. Mummy Pig, voiced by ...

But doctors in London and Cambridge created a potentially game-changing fix called targeted thermal therapy (TTT), also known as endoscopic ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation. Using a ...

Many will die waiting. Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs that have been engineered to work within the human body. Such species-to-species transplants, called ...

Beneath it sits the kidney of a genetically modified pig that surgeons transplanted into his body six weeks ago. Dr. Leonardo Riella squirts a cold gel on Andrews’ belly, and presses an ...

Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain. Genetically modified ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

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was meant to “wake up the Danish society” to the mistreatment of pigs, pointing to statistics that tens of thousands of pigs die each day because of poor conditions. “I have some kind of ...

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