Such skin ulcers are caused by poor circulation ... "There are many anatomical similarities between pigs and humans, especially in the cardiovascular system," says Cook Biotech vice president Mark ...

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

A MUM was forced to undergo 12-hour surgery to reconstruct her bowels and vagina using pig skin after doctors dismissed her cancer symptoms for years. Claire Boulton underwent the surgery last ...

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.

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

Over the past three decades, pig heart valves have been successfully planted in humans and pig skin has also been used as a temporary graft for burn victims. Researchers are now hoping that gene ...