New York, NY - Animal-to-human transplantation of hearts is far too risky despite the desperate need for donor organs, with about 1200 patients dying each year while waiting for heart and lung ...

One objection to xenotransplantation is that it will require the large-scale breeding, raising and killing of genetically modified pigs. The pigs will need to be raised in designated pathogen-free ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture traps and kills around 1,000 feral pigs a year on Guam, but it isn’t enough to keep the population of invasive swine in check, according ...

Chinese researchers are preparing the details for the publication of another scientific milestone, the creation of a chimera ...