Besides nutritional science, what else are you focusing on? China is both the world’s largest pork producer and consumer of pork products, so any technological advancement in pig farming will ...

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them. Human ears and skin have famously been grown on mice. More recently, ...

The first clinical trial testing whether pig kidneys can be safely transplanted into living people has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As part of the trial, which will ...

Scientists have found evidence of independent pig domestication in the Gangetic plains from around 5,000 years ago, possibly ...

However, the Chinese team’s success with pigs hints at extending this critical ... Could the liver become a cornerstone of resuscitation science? While the idea seems almost science fiction ...

Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia ... scientists prepped a whopping 4,008 genetically modified ...

A man in Massachusetts just became the first person to receive a pig kidney transplant. Scientists have been developing genetically engineered pigs as a way to address the critical lack of human ...

A comparison of the laminar structure in the pig and the rat hippocampus revealed conservation of the layered structure, with a remarkably small increase in the overall layer width given that the ...