First, the researchers use both mechanical (matching the stiffness of the culture condition with the stiffness of the pig heart valve) and chemical environments to reprogram adult human skin cells ...

Pig heart valves have been used as replacements in humans since the 1960s, but in those cases, the tissue is chemically treated to kill off the cells including the alpha-gal sugar. Presumably ...

Pig heart valves and pig skin grafts are widely used on human patients and in this case the chosen pigs are the result of gene editing that has removed certain markers that caused patients to ...

On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

Today, pig heart valves are widely used in humans, and pig skin is grafted on human burn victims. Pigs make the ideal donors because of their size, their rapid growth and large litters ...

More recently, attention has turned toward pigs. Today, pig heart valves are widely used in humans, and pig skin is grafted on human burn victims. Pigs make for ideal donors because their organ ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...