In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo.

Scientists have achieved an unprecedented look into how the human immune system attacks a transplanted pig kidney, using ...

The pig’s mouth revealed its ordinary sharp, tusk-like canines saddled up beside smaller, slightly more human-looking teeth nubs. In theory, a similar process could play out in humans.

But there's a problem, and a big one at that: The body naturally wants to reject any tissue it knows it didn't manufacture.

A multisite research team has issued ethical and policy recommendations for first-in-human clinical trials involving the transplantation of pig ...

They achieved this by taking cells from human dental pulp and mixing them with cells from pigs' tooth buds. As MIT Technology Review discusses, the researchers harvest cells from pig jaws that ...

A surgical robot has successfully removed pig gallbladders in a lab setting without any hands-on help during the actual ...

These Mini-Pigs Just Grew Human-Like Teeth—Here’s Why It Matters Biological tooth substitutes could provide better alternatives to dentures and titanium implants.

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

The robot successfully removed eight gallbladders from eight different pig cadavers, without any instruction or intervention ...