Humans ferried pigs across thousands of Pacific islands for millennia, reshaping ecosystems and blurring the line between ...
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50,000 years of island-hopping pigs reveal ancient human migration
Learn how pigs spread across Pacific islands, what their DNA reveals about ancient human journeys, and why their legacy still ...
The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung ...
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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not. Why is that?
In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic ...
Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
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, and ...
There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...
Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...
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