Learn how pigs spread across Pacific islands, what their DNA reveals about ancient human journeys, and why their legacy still ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...

A new study, published in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the ...

UNDATED HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells us why humans seem to thrive with at least one type of transplant from pigs. We are talking about tissue transplants, and from hernias to plastic ...

(CNN) — Last summer, after more than a decade of illness, Lawrence Faucette and his wife, Ann, faced the hard reality that the end of his life was near. He was 58 and had end-stage heart failure.

In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient as part of a clinical trial. The kidney had ...

The human guinea pig may soon be extinct. He (it’s usually a ‘he’) has become endangered through the advances of cell culture science, which increasingly close the gap between in vitro testing (the ...

Pigs across the Pacific can trace their ancestry to Southeast Asian domestic pigs that accompanied early Austronesian-speaking groups as they island-hopped across the region, according to a new ...

Dental researchers from Tufts University took cells from the dental pulp of a human tooth and mixed them with cells from the enamel of a pig tooth and seeded them onto a “scaffold.” It was then grown ...

A pig has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu in a backyard farm in Oregon. Pigs can host both bird and human flu viruses, which can make them a dangerous "mixing bowl." Flu season can also heighten the ...