A month after an experimental operation to transplant a genetically modified pig's heart into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the organ is functioning independently and showing no signs of rejection. CNN reported in more detail. In September, 58-year-old Lawrence Fawcett underwent surgery...
Surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man, and for more than a month the organ functioned normally. This is an important step towards the operation, which the New York team hopes to eventually perform on living patients. This writes APNews. Scientists across the country are rushing to learn...
Experts said the genetically engineered pig whose heart was used in the first human transplant of its kind had a swine virus that may have played a role in the patient's death two months later. The New York Post writes about it. David Bennett Sr., 57…
American surgeons were the first in the world to successfully transplant a porcine kidney into a human. The immune system has not rejected the organ, which is a very great achievement. This could reduce the acute shortage of human organs for transplantation. More details were told by the Voice of America edition. During the procedure carried out in ...
In Texas, wild pigs attacked and killed a woman outside the house where she worked. According to the Chambers County Sheriff, the woman was found dead after being attacked at dawn by several wild pigs outside the home of an elderly couple who ...
American scientists partially restored the pigs' brains ten hours after the animals were slaughtered. An experiment by scientists at Yale University could help study Alzheimer's disease. The study raises questions about the borderline between life and death and challenges the assumption that the brain is dying ...
A livestock truck carrying about 3 pigs overturned on a highway in Illinois, an hour's drive from Chicago. The incident occurred around 8 a.m. on March 22. Approximately 100 animals died, the rest were vigorously fiddling around in the mud around the car -...
The animals inflicted multiple injuries on the woman and she died of blood loss. In the Malopurginsky district of Udmurtia, pigs killed their mistress to death. As Udm-info was told in the press service of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Udmurtia, a 56-year-old local resident entered the barn to feed the pigs, but ...
Police in San Bernardino, California, received a report of a pig "about the size of a mini-horse" roaming the streets. Police officers responded to the call and quickly found the animal. The police had received similar calls before - so they knew exactly where the escaped pig lived. They just had to figure out how to get her home, writes Meduza.…