Noga had two days to prepare for this rescue mission — save 18 pigs from a petting zoo in northeastern Illinois.

“We often imagine Mesopotamian foodways in the Bronze Age as having no pigs, but most meat eaten in the largest cities was pork,” Price says. “Big cities are fantastic places to raise pig ...

In the U.S. last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of “bridge” support by externally ...

Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain. Genetically modified ...