Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve into a rodent, led by the research of a Northeastern University professor.

A MUM was forced to undergo 12-hour surgery to reconstruct her bowels and vagina using pig skin after doctors dismissed her ...

Scientists have disguised tumours to ‘look’ similar to pig organs ― tricking the immune system into attacking the cancerous ...

What cells and specialized organs make such ... as small radial muscles pull the sac open making the pigment expand under the skin. Electrical activity within a chromatophore nerve (Fig.

Injecting infarcted pig hearts with specially bioengineered cells significantly decreased the infarct area and improved heart function, showing possible clinical relevance. University of Alabama at ...

It is as effective as the already widely used Nile tilapia skin, their study has shown. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The pig cardiomyocyte cells also showed upregulation of three signaling pathways—the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase pathway, the HIPPO/YAP pathway and the Transforming Growth Factor Β pathway.

If the nerve cell dies or separates, paralysis will occur ... To visualize and measure the CTM behavior prior to injury, the shaved back of each sedated guinea pig was touched lightly with a probe, ...