Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

In a paper published in late December, a team at Tufts University reported having successfully grown human-like teeth in pigs. Pamela Yelick, a professor at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine and ...

They achieved this by taking cells from human dental pulp and mixing them with cells from pigs' tooth buds. As MIT Technology Review discusses, the researchers harvest cells from pig jaws that ...

For the first time, researchers developed stem cell-derived pig retinal cells in comparison with human retinal cells, ...

“Historically, the Thomson Lab has been good at making human induced pluripotent stem cells,” says Ron Stewart, Morgridge investigator in computational biology. “But it turns out that making them for ...

Researchers developed pig retinal organoids similar to human ones, advancing stem cell-based vision restoration and enabling ...

In a paper published in late December, a team at Tufts University reported having successfully grown human-like teeth in pigs. Pamela Yelick, a professor at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine and ...