Pigs’ anatomy and physiology are so different from humans — their blood coagulates differently, for example — that maiming pigs is inapplicable to human emergency medicine. This is in part why most ...

A database of thousands of grunts, oinks, snuffles and squeals, gathered and recorded from hundreds of pigs at every stage of their lives, will be used to help farmers better understand their ...

Several-week-old pigs stand in a pen inside a barn at Paustian Enterprises in Walcott, Iowa, in Nov. 2014. The results of the research on pigs in Belgium is expected by the end of the year. (REUTERS) ...

If scientists can understand how pigs regrow and replace teeth so many times, Yelick said, they might be able to regrow teeth in people. In their research, Yelick and her team took soft living ...

They go by many names – pigs, hogs, swine, razorbacks – but whatever you call them, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are one of the most damaging invasive species in North America. They cause millions ...

"Pigs’ anatomy differs from that of humans and pigs cannot sit up naturally in car seats, so the data obtained from these experiments do not apply to human car-crash victims," the PETA news ...

These pigs aren’t considered to be different in any other way—including taste and safety—from unmodified pigs. PIC’s gene-edited pigs aren’t the first to be approved as food in the U.S.