Guinea pigs may be small but the compact rodents get a lot of attention at Brookfield Zoo Chicago.

On an island in Papua New Guinea, a 3-foot-long creature with a black tongue made itself at home in a village garden — or it tried to, at least. Locals spotted the “smooth” animal and caught it. They ...

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.

Leppi, the traditional fabric of Guinea, has been officially recognised as a cultural heritage of the West African country and is now protected by the African Intellectual Property Organisation (OAPI) ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

CRCHUM researcher Sophie Petropoulos and her team reveal for the first time that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of ...

Guinea-Bissau, one of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries, has a population of approximately 1.9 million. Guinea-Bissau borders Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south, and its ...

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Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...

The first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human was undertaken by Chinese researchers last year, according to a new, peer-reviewed study. The patient was clinically brain ...