In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo.

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Chinese scientists have, for the first time, cultivated a beating heart structure with human cells in a pig embryo, reporting ...

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Two female lambs were born to a single recipient female at Srinagar’s Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and ...

Last week saw scientists celebrating a breakthrough in bowel cancer prevention. The study, by the University of Edinburgh and the Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre, uncovered bowel cancer’s ...

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 ...

The team found that the embryos grew for up to 21 days, after which they did not survive. Lai says it’s possible the human cells disrupted the function of the pig hearts.

The guinea pig serves as an alternative model to study human preimplantation development. Nature Cell Biology, 2025; 27 (4): 696 DOI: 10.1038/s41556-025-01642-9 ...

Like human–pig chimeras, synthetic embryos straddle two distinct categories: in this case, stem cell model and human embryo. It is not obvious how they should be treated. In the past decade, we have ...

The part-human, part-pig embryos, known as chimeras, were grown in conditions in the lab that catered to both pig and human cells and their different needs, before being implanted in surrogate sows.