President Piggy

A month or so ago—you may remember—the political commentator Helen Andrews published an essay for Compact magazine titled ...
Mary Roach's new book Replaceable You explores what we do when bits of our bodies break down or need switching out. It makes ...
In the heart of Northeast India’s grassland ecosystem lives a creature so unique, it’s rewriting the narrative on pig ...
In a successful transplant in a man with brain death, scientists prevented the immune system from attacking a genetically ...
A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...
Late-breaking results from clinical trials, debates about lifestyle choices and cardiovascular risk, and improving clinical care with generative AI are among the topics being presented by UC San ...
Findings also confirmed that a pig kidney can effectively serve as a replacement for a human kidney. Researchers have ...
In two studies published Thursday, researchers discovered why transplanted pig organs were being rejected from human patients and how to reverse it.
Researchers have uncovered and then overcome an obstacle that has led to the failure of pioneering efforts in ...
The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor organs.