After years of trial and error, scientists have finally done something incredible: They have successfully grown human stem cells in a pig embryo. Why would anyone do this? Turns out, many ...

A group led by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has taken the first big step toward making this a reality: today (January 26) in Cell, they report having grown the first ...

Rivers and Ward 1 reported the propagation of louping-ill virus in a Maitland-type culture of chick embryo tissue ... viral agent in monolayer culture of pig kidney.

In Boston, an ailing 62-year-old man received a genetically-altered kidney from a pig in a world first. The new organ began to produce urine almost immediately, doctors at Mass General said ...