Moussa Dadis Camara, pardoned on health grounds, was less than a year into a 20-year sentence. The country's envoy to neighbouring Guinea is recalled to explain the incident but has not been ...

Guinea-Bissau, one of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries, has a population of approximately 1.9 million. Guinea-Bissau borders Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south, and its ...

And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person. Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike in hopes of ...

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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 ...

So it's a great achievement." Hearts and kidneys from genetically modified pigs have already been transplanted into a handful of living patients. Most died within weeks of the operation ...

The difference between the 1994 example and the current spate of transplants is that pigs are now genetically modified to make their organs more humanlike. What about other types of pig organ ...

Pigs have emerged as the best animal organ donors, with several living patients in the United States having received pig kidneys or hearts in the last few years. Livers have proved trickier—and ...

Papua New Guinea has blocked access to Facebook in what authorities call a "test" to limit hate speech, misinformation and pornography. The sudden ban, which started on Monday, has drawn criticism ...

they're able to screen donor pigs and recipients by using genetic sequencing to look for any changes in the genetic material, which could indicate disease or infection. He says this is a critical ...