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 ...

The strange world of organ preservation is spawning new tech firms. OrganOx has added impetus to the industry with a $142mn ...

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 ...

Researchers have previously created human-animal embryos, such as sheep and pig embryos with human cells, but those pregnancies were terminated after a few days or weeks. This experiment aims to ...

Scientists in China have also pursued the humanisation of donor animals by inserting human stem cells into pig embryos, producing embryos with kidneys that are made up of mostly human cells.

The virus-free pigs could get us a step closer to transplanting pig organs into humans, something that's been a challenge in the past. Next, the company may have to make some more tweaks to make ...

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.