ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, it was revealed that biotechnology researchers had successfully created a hybrid of a human being and a pig. A man-pig. A pig-man. The reality is so unspeakable, the words ...

Hoping to someday stave off immune rejection after xenotransplantation, researchers at New York University's Langone ...

If a human–pig chimera were brought to term, should we treat it like a pig, like a human, or like something else altogether? ... The embryos were then implanted into a sow and allowed to develop for ...

Otherwise, pig kidney cells would outcompete human ones for available resources. Next, ... A total of 1,820 embryos were implanted in 13 surrogate sow mothers.

A pioneering study has provided unprecedented insights into the immune response following pig-to-human kidney ...

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision therapies in the early rejection phase.

In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a ...

The company's first modified pig, the GalSafe single gene knockout, now is bred instead of cloned. If xenotransplantation eventually works, other pigs with the desired gene combinations would be, too.

This is increasingly important, as pigs are often used as a model for studying human nutrition and health. Due to their genetic similarities to humans, pigs offer insights that mice and other ...

Creating pigs to ease the shortage of human organs. ... Twice a week, slaughterhouses ship Revivicor hundreds of eggs retrieved from sow ovaries.

A pig stands in a pen at the Revivicor research farm near Blacksburg, Va., on May 29, 2024, where organs are retrieved for animal-to-human transplant experiments. Shelby Lum / AP ...