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.

They’re growing human/monkey hybrids in a lab for the purpose ... certain types of human stem cells in animal embryos in the past, including in pigs and mice. They found that the tissues were ...

Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal ...

“This unique pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation provides critical information that cannot be provided by animal experiments alone.” Liver may not have worked long-term Professor Peter ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a ...

The guinea pig has long been used for studies in developmental biology and is very similar to humans in terms of general physiology. It is also the only small animal that, in females, goes through ...