The Internet’s a-buzz with news of Ron Sveden, the 75-year-old Cape Cod man who discovered that a growth in his lung was not, as feared, a tumor — but rather a pea plant. A seed had somehow lodged ...

Most fruits have seeds of some kind. However, while it makes sense that planting the seeds of fruits that grow on trees would produce fruit trees, it's not quite that straightforward. For reasons ...

Lung diseases kill millions of people around the world each year. Treatment options are limited, and animal models for studying these illnesses and experimental medications are inadequate. Now, ...

The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients.