Novel research led by Brazilian scientists describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to ...

U.S. regulators have approved a genetically modified pig for food and medical products, making it the second such animal to get the green light for human consumption. But the company behind it says ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a seven-month ...

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 ...

A tiny genetic tweak can make pigs completely resistant to classical swine fever, a major problem for farmers around the world. The same gene edit should also make cattle and sheep resistant to ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for more ...

New research reveals how humans began moving pigs across the Pacific 50,000 years ago, reshaping ecosystems throughout 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 ...