Two piglets recently born in China look like average swine on the outside, but on the inside, they are (a very small) part monkey. "This is the first report of full-term pig-monkey chimeras," ...

The world's first pig-monkey chimeras have been born in China, scientists have announced. Researchers injected monkey stem cells into fertilized pig embryos then implanted them into sows and allowed ...

Scientists in China created piglets whose organs contained some monkey cells. The piglets all died within a week, illustrating the challenges ahead as researchers work toward the goal of growing human ...

A genetically engineered pig developed by the National Institute of Animal Science. Photo provided by the National Institute of Animal Science. South Korea is seeing a succession of new survival ...

A team of researchers in China has successfully mixed DNA cells of a monkey with a pig embryo, creating the first every 'pig-monkey'. In a new report by NewScientists, scientists and researchers from ...

Researchers injected D-ESCs (embryonic stem cells) into porcine blastocysts (pig pre-embyros) to obtain neonatal interspecies chimeras. The D-ESCs differentiated into all three germ layers in the pig ...

According to a New Scientist exclusive, the first ever piglets with cells from monkeys have been born in a Chinese lab. “This is the first report of full-term pig-monkey chimeras,” State Key ...

Around the world, there aren’t enough donor kidneys available for everyone who needs one. Scientists are hoping pig kidneys could help ease the shortage, but first they must make sure the organs can ...