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 ...

coli to bioluminescence when they encounter the compound heme, an indicator of bleeding, in the guts of pigs. Packaged within a capsule 1.5 inches in length, the bacteria and electronics alerted the ...

However, this change was only observed in pigs with an intact vagus nerve (the nerve connecting the brain to the gut), which demonstrates that the effect involves both the stomach and the central ...