"If sugar can change the brain's reward system after only 12 days, as we saw in the case of the pigs, you can imagine that natural stimuli such as learning or social interaction are pushed into ...

Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but among the hurdles: A sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection.

The animals are a line of domestic pigs engineered to lack the sugar galactose-α-1,3-galactose—commonly called alpha-gal—on the surface of their cells.

Sugar promotes sperm longevity in pig reproductive tract. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 09 / 200917135513.htm ...

Sugar promotes sperm longevity in pig reproductive tract Peer-Reviewed Publication. University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences ...

References: Zhong L, Gan L, Wang B, et al. Hyperacute rejection-engineered oncolytic virus for interventional clinical trial in refractory cancer patients. Cell. 2025 Jan 15:S0092-8674(24)01423-5 ...

This sugar appears on the surface of pig cells and seems to be responsible for rapid rejection in humans. The pig was engineered by Revivicor, a subsidiary of United Therapeutics Corporation.

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 ...

Pig kidney transplant gives woman a second chance at life 03:08. A grandmother died on Sunday, months after she received a combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant ...