porcine

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The recipient survived for 171 days, providing early evidence that modified porcine livers can take on essential metabolic and synthetic duties in people.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025

Children who cannot have porcine gelatine in medical products will be offered an injection.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

Instead, the Conservancy resorted to a five-year experimental birth control plan in 2009, injecting female bison with the contraceptive porcine zona pellucida.

From National Geographic • Jan. 18, 2024

For example, the company Revivicor, which is owned by United Therapeutics and provided the pigs used in the University of Maryland transplants, leaves the porcine viral genes intact.

From Scientific American • Oct. 11, 2023

Spanish armies traveled in a porcine cloud; drawn by the supper trough, the lean, hungry animals circled the troops like darting dogs.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann