So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

From snake-themed events to whether your luck is in: discover all you need to know about the coming Lunar New Year in our Year of the Snake 2025 series. Pigs are a sign opposing the tai sui ...

Raising pigs on your homestead is one of the most rewarding tasks — both monetarily and emotionally. Get tips and methods for the best meat pigs on the homestead and learn how to raise pigs for ...

Background Early-life inflammation has long been recognised as a key pathophysiological process in the evolution of cystic ...

Your right lung has three balloon-like sections, called lobes, which are full of spongy tissue. Your left lung has only two lobes, to make room for the heart. They sit in a special membrane called ...

The development of pig lungs undergoes embryonic, pseudo glandular, canalicular, and alveolar stages around embryonic day 19 (E19), E25, E60, and E90, respectively (McGeady et al., 2017; Shimamura et ...

They’re separate conditions that can damage your lungs in opposite ways and for different reasons. But symptoms of COPD and pulmonary fibrosis can be so alike that it can be tricky for doctors ...

Our study utilized sequencing technology to scrutinize longitudinal development stages within Ningxiang pig’s longest dorsal muscles aiming to unravel these underlying mechanisms. In three distinct ...

Lung disease modeling and dissection of the underlying mechanisms remain challenging due to complexities in deriving and maintaining human AT2 cells ex vivo. Here, we describe the development of ...