Dave Myers and Si King were total one-offs – homespun, eccentric enthusiasts, yes, but big, northern, bearded, leather-clad “nutjob dropout hippies” to boot. How could we resist? Tragically ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A KLM flight made an unscheduled landing when the cabin was filled with the smell of 100 pigs. The Boeing 787 was flying from Amsterdam to ...

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 ...

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.

The case will be closely watched by the transplant community, as success could speed initiation of a clinical trial, bringing pig transplants closer to reality and helping to solve the organ ...

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 ...

In yet another sign of xenotransplantation creeping toward reality, a medical team at NYU Langone Health announced Tuesday that, for the third time, a kidney from a genetically modified pig had ...