Get an inside look at the weirdest and funniest pig quirks we’ve captured on film—these pigs will leave you laughing.

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.

Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the ...

Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief duration. In a 50-year-old brain-dead recipient, the transplanted liver ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver ...

Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first time, raising hopes of a live-saving donor option for ...

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have ... liver until a human liver can be obtained for the definitive transplant." A schematic diagram of the surgery. (Tao et al., ...

Donor livers are hard to come by, however. This week, a Chinese team turned to another source—pig livers—and published the first results showing how they function inside a human recipient. The liver ...

The study offers the latest evidence that gene-modified pig organs could be a viable option for people suffering from organ failure. Scientists in China have transplanted a modified pig liver into ...

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 ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...