For the first time, researchers have created lungs in the lab and successfully transplanted them into pigs. These bioengineered lungs, described online August 1 in Science Translational Medicine, ...

In an article in the Feb. 1 issue of The Scientist, 1 Ricki Lewis asks whether the pig is replaceable as a laboratory research animal. The fetal pig as a specimen for biology dissection labs is indeed ...

JACUMBA, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — In a victory for animal rights, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) announced the successful release of two Gottingen pigs from a research facility to Ferdinand and ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More than 50 million animals are used in experiments each year in the ...

Inside the human eye, the retina is made up of several types of cells, including the light-sensing photoreceptors that initiate the cascade of events that lead to vision. Damage to the photoreceptors, ...

Part pig. Part human. All real. An international team of scientists created a human-pig hybrid in a research project that raises the prospect organs for transplantation might someday be grown, ...