Ask any smoker who has tried to quit and they’ll tell you it isn’t easy. But a recent study offers a surprising glimmer of hope – one that may already be sitting on pharmacy shelves.

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the investigation with no signs of rejection. For 10 days, the liver performed its basic ...

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 ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile ...

Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, and their best appearances together. Let’s begin with a prime Porky and Daffy moment from Robert McKimson’s Boobs in the Woods (1950).

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