Tag Archives: Pig

Federal prosecutors seized $15 billion in cryptocurrency from an investment scheme known as “pig butchering” that they allege emanated from forced labor camps in Cambodia. The Justice Department said it’s the largest forfeiture action in its history. Prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday charging Chen Zhi, a Chinese émigré who holds several passports and built the Cambodia-based Prince Group, one of …

The US government has seized 134.5 BTC, or $15 billion worth of Bitcoin, held by a man who ran a “pig butchering” fraud operation based in Cambodia. Per the DOJ, the alleged pig butcherer, Chen Zhi, is still at large. JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Government seizes $15 billion worth of Bitcoin from ‘pig butchering’ scam based in Cambodia. — Watcher.Guru …

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the procedure, and 38 of those days were with the pig organ in place – a first to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scientists have had early success transplanting genetically modified pig kidneys and hearts into humans, and pig …

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the procedure, and 38 of those days were with the pig organ in place – a first to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scientists have had early success transplanting genetically modified pig kidneys and hearts into humans, and pig …

There’s a sneaky little pig hiding in plain sight—among a flock of birds. If you can spot it in under 13 seconds, your brain’s working faster than most. Today’s challenge: where’s the pig? Welcome, curious minds and eagle-eyed observers! Today’s test isn’t your average spot-the-difference game. This one’s all about quick thinking, sharp focus, and a touch of intuition. Picture …

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning, and happy tenth anniversary to STAT! That’s a decade of incredible, award-winning journalism, wonderful colleagues, and delicious snacks shared at the office. We’ll be celebrating for the rest of the year and have some some cool stuff coming soon that …

Tim Andrews leaving hospital in January after he received a genetically modified pig kidney.Credit: Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital A 67-year-old US man is still alive more than six months after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. This is the longest a pig organ has survived in a living person. Researchers say the outcome is a landmark case of …

A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement that reveals both the promise and significant challenges of xenotransplantation. Over the course of the experiment, the patient showed increasing signs of organ rejection before scientists at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University in China terminated the experiment, allowing …

Credit: Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical University/Xinhua via Alamy A lung from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a person for the first time1. The recipient, a 39-year-old man in China, was brain dead, but the organ survived for nine days. At least half a dozen people in the United States and China have received organs …

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, doctors in China transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person. Similar experiments involving brain-dead patients have previously taken place in the U.S., but they involved different pig organs, such as kidneys and hearts, and a previous experiment in China involved a pig liver. These experiments have paved the way to transplants …