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A medical team at Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical University in Xi’an, China, surgically connected a man with liver failure to an external, genetically…

Campaigners are calling on theatre bosses to stop serving bacon, sausages and ham in their cafes – at least while Peppa Pig and her family are…

A leading surgeon behind a clinical trial of transplanting pig kidneys into living humans has said they could one day be superior to those from human…

November 17, 20253 min readTransplant Rejection Is a Major Hurdle for Pig Organs. Scientists Are Solving the ProblemIn a successful transplant in a man with brain…

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October 10, 20253 min readPig Liver Surgery Moves Us Closer to Transplants from Other SpeciesSurgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with…

Perhaps it was the extravagant display of deadly weaponry that prompted Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin to mull on mortality at this week’s military parade in…

Surgeons have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain dead human recipient for the first time and found it functioned for nine…