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A quintet of research papers, all involving subjecting newborn piglets to brain damage, have been retracted because the data can’t be substantiated.

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Infographic: How H1N1 Came to Spark a Pandemic in 2009

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Surgeons Successfully Transplant a Pig Kidney into a Person

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The Long Journey to Resolve the Origins of a Previous Pandemic

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The Extinct Species Within

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Two New Coronaviruses Make the Leap into Humans

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Mammals Can Use Their Intestines to Breathe

See Pigs Master a Joystick Video Game

FDA Clears Genetic Modification in Pigs for Biomedicine and Food

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Image of the Day: Bionic Heart

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Infographic: A Deadly Pig Virus’s Escapes from Africa

Can a Vaccine Save the World’s Pigs from African Swine Fever?

Monthly Contraceptive Pill Shows Promise in Pig Study

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Scientists Race to Build Vaccine for African Swine Fever

Circulation and Cell Function Revived in Dead Pigs’ Brains

Pig Hearts Provide Long-Term Cardiac Function in Baboons

Deadly Swine Disease Spreads Among Pigs in China

Lab-Grown Lungs Transplanted into Pigs

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The Alpha-Gal Syndrome Story: How Researchers Traced a Red-Meat Allergy to Ticks

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Fragments of Lyme Disease Bacteria Linked to Liver Dysfunction

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How Cysteine Depletion Drives Cells to Burn Fat 

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Advances in Automated RNA Library Preparation

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

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What Causes an Earworm?

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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Multiplexing PCR Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Research

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