I’m talking about the Monster Hunter’s Poogie, an chubby, floppy-eared pig that is nearly as recognizable as a series’ mascot ...

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

When Mark and Tina Boulcott agreed to take in some rescued donkeys to add to their menagerie, they thought they were getting four of them. But it soon appeared that two were pregnant – and one popped ...

But will these “bodyoids” ever be ethically acceptable? This week, MIT Technology Review published a piece on bodyoids—living bodies that cannot think or feel pain. In the piece, a trio of ...

Stafford County Deputy Peterson assists in delivering piglets Hamela and Lindsay from a distressed 400-pound pig named Barbie ...

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked central Myanmar on March 28 at about 12:50 p.m. local time, leaving at least 144 people confirmed dead so far and triggering widespread damage across ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

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