porcine

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This region is nearly twice as long as the same structure in porcine circovirus 2, one of the most extensively studied circoviruses.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

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

Pigs can carry viruses such as porcine cytomegalovirus, the one that was detected in Bennett, the person who received a pig heart transplant in 2022.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 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