Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most common and most devastating muscular diseases, greatly reducing patients’ quality of life and life expectancy. Now, researchers in Germany have managed to use the CRISPR gene-editing tool to correct the condition in pigs, bringing the treatment ever closer to human trials.

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"Eating like a pig" is usually meant as an insult. But despite their dirty reputations, some pigs clean their food before eating it, a recent study shows. Researchers at University College London and Basel Zoo in Switzerland made their discovery after a zoo employee spotted several wild boar bringing dirty apple chunks to a stream and sloshing them around before eating them. Follow-up experiments confirmed the pigs can ...

Deaf, blind and so overweight that he couldn't walk, Tab the pig was dumped at a dog pound but he got lucky when Lasa Sanctuary heard his story and came to the rescue.