May 14—STEWARTVILLE, Minn. — A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free ...

A US clinical trial using gene-edited pig kidneys has begun, with experts saying xenotransplantation could one day offer ...

Dental researchers from Tufts University took cells from the dental pulp of a human tooth and mixed them with cells from the enamel of a pig tooth and seeded them onto a “scaffold.” It was then grown ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale behind the NIH ban that human cells could make pigs too human rests on a ...

A pig-to-human transplant center is being built in Minnesota, local media has reported. United Therapeutics, a U.S. biotech company, has purchased 32 acres of land in Stewartville for $4.5 million to ...

UNDATED HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells us why humans seem to thrive with at least one type of transplant from pigs. We are talking about tissue transplants, and from hernias to plastic ...

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 ...

Like a page out of a sci-fi novel, a man in Massachusetts is now walking around with a kidney from a cloned pig. Richard Slayman recently became the first live human to receive a kidney from a ...

Losing a tooth is tough. If we lose the small living structures that help us chew our food, we're left with the options of replacing them with dentures or implants that can be costly. Beyond that, ...

Pigs are called many different names in American folk culture. Porky, Arnold, Babe, Miss Piggy and the Three Little Pigs are among the more prominent. Usually, “lifesaver” isn’t one of them. Yet the ...

A pig has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu in a backyard farm in Oregon. Pigs can host both bird and human flu viruses, which can make them a dangerous "mixing bowl." Flu season can also heighten the ...