Michael Nietzel is president emeritus of Missouri State University. A Forbes contributor since 2019, he writes about higher education. After earning his B.A. from Wheaton College (Illinois), he ...

he first time Michael Whelan was warned that robots were coming for his job was in the 1980s.

Pigs pose a particular risk of incubating new viruses, but cats, too, pose a similar risk because of their proximity to humans, as per a new study. Now, scientists are warning that domestic cats ...

Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine.

When pigs fly, it gets really smelly. A flight headed to Mexico went a little “hog wild” when the pilot decided to make an unplanned landing due to an “obnoxious smell” coming from the ...

Experts have long regarded pigs as one of the greatest zoonotic threats to public health because their cells allow viruses to mix and mutate, creating new strains capable of causing human pandemics.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ, after eight years on dialysis ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. AP spoke with three people closely watching pig kidney development, including two who’ve asked about ...

BRITS have been left ‘haunted’ after they only just realise what pigs in blankets actually mean in the US. Pigs in blankets are a firm favourite of many foodies up and down the country ...

Towana Looney knew that the first four people who ever received an organ from a pig died within two months. But the Gadsden, Alabama, woman was still game to try it herself. After eight years on ...