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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 ...
New research reveals how humans began moving pigs across the Pacific 50,000 years ago, reshaping ecosystems throughout the ...
Humans ferried pigs across thousands of Pacific islands for millennia, reshaping ecosystems and blurring the line between ...
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 new study, published in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the ...
In Greek mythology, a chimera is a monstrous scramble of a lion, goat, and a serpent. In genetics, the term means something only slightly more down-to-earth: an organism with cells from at least two ...
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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 ...
In September, scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health announced they had successfully grown “humanized” kidneys inside pig embryos. The scientists genetically altered the ...
There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...
May 14—STEWARTVILLE, Minn. — A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free ...
Pig kidneys transplanted into a human have worked to preserve life in a breakthrough case. The genetically modified kidneys were transplanted into a brain-dead patient and were found to function just ...
Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?
While research on human-pig chimeras is on an indefinite pause, xenotransplantation is moving ahead. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, ...
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