Pig Progress brings you the latest business news and updates from the global pig industry, including a significant investment ...

Pigs are also similar to humans in organ size, along with other anatomical and physiological characteristics, and in their genetics. However, generating mutations with N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea and then ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

An individual pig can become infected with the bird flu ... Still, the bird flu virus may be just a few mutations away from spreading more easily to (and possibly between) humans, which could ...