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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- An arrest has been made weeks after Houston police say a teenager was shot while burying his pet guinea pig. Investigators say Emmanuel Menchaca was hospitalized after being ...

A man in China became the first recipient of a pig lung. The genetically modified pig organ was transplanted into the 39-year-old, according to an Aug. 26 report by the journal Nature. The procedure ...

A Houston man has been arrested in connection with the shooting last month of a teenager who was burying a pet guinea pig in his own yard. John Martin Dixon, 46, was arrested Monday and charged with ...

Scientists have, for the first time, transplanted a genetically engineered pig lung into a human. The lung tissue remained alive for nine days after the transplant despite early signs of inflammation, ...

This past June, a stray 90-lb. pig was seen wandering down the street in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The pig was picked up by the Anne Arundel County Animal Services. They named him Wellington, and it didn ...

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to ...

A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly published report. There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...

Gene-edited pigs lack a sugar in their muscles that normally makes them incompatible with our biology, among other changes. © SGr via Shutterstock The tantalizing ...