A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar. The research shows that domestic pig ...

Spanish scientists have successfully combined human kidney organoids with pig kidneys and transplanted them back into the same animal, therefore creating the world’s first functional human-pig hybrid ...

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to ...