porcine
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Russian state scientists appointed by Putin have focused on two key technologies: bioprinting, or 3D-printing living tissue, and xenotransplantation, or growing human organs inside mini-pigs, a porcine breed deemed genetically compatible to humans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
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
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
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