Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain. Genetically modified, newborn ...

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After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine More than 100,000 people in the United States ...

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Usually, horror movies that exploit elderly actors for shock value are about women. In every way but that one, “The Rule of Jenny Pen” is a hagsploitation picture—even the title, with a few small ...

Peppa Pig will have a brand new piglet to play with come the summer, with news that the beloved character is to welcome a new sibling to the family. Morwenna Banks, who voices the character of ...

This would be the introduction of a villain in just about any other film, but the judge is actually our sympathetic protagonist. While that may seem like the movie giving itself an insurmountable ...

Russian leaders cheered after President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance dealt Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a brutal smackdown in the Oval Office Friday, reveling in the public ...

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