In the animal kingdom, survival is often determined by strength, speed, and intelligence, but for some creatures, their own physical traits can make them vulnerable to harm or even death. From the ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Nipah virus, first identified in 1998, remains a deadly threat due to bat reservoirs, human practices, high fatality rates, ...

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision ...

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 fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is ...

Chinese researchers are preparing the details for the publication of another scientific milestone, the creation of a chimera with a human heart and a kidney developed from human stem cells in pig ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have successfully grown tiny human hearts in pig embryos that survived up to 21 days – a development that could one day help solve the global organ shortage ...

These showed that the pigs had eaten cooked rice, yams, an unknown tuber, acorns, and grasses. “These are plants that were present in the environment at that time and were found in human settlements,” ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.