Most air passengers rarely think about what’s stored in the cargo hold below, but passengers on a recent KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight were in for a surprise when the stench from live pigs ...

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 ... Asked what she wants to do next, she said, “I want to go to Disney World.” ...

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 ...

"We'll have to see at the first four months, six months or a year if there's anything a pig kidney can't quite do that a human kidney is able to do," Montgomery said. Xenotransplantation is the ...

Aldi would come a close second, as you do get a lot from an 'Ultimate Pig in Blanket' but there are so few of them in a pack.

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced ... Those who do end up needing a transplant are given higher ...

She is the first live patient to receive a pig’s kidney with 10 gene edits designed to reduce the risk of organ rejection. “Emotionally I’m overjoyed. I don’t know what I want to do next ...