Clara Jung of Banner Day Interiors worked with clients on a San Francisco ranch house that’s full of big, airy spaces. But nudge the secret panel in the living room bookcase and you’ll find a cozy, color-saturated, album-lined music den. There’s a vintage wood bar and a sprawl-worthy crimson rug.
“A lot of what we’re seeing, we’re seeing for the first time,” Montgomery said.Locke, who recently joined the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, visited last week to check her longtime patient’s progress. Looney hugged her, saying, “Thank you for not giving up on me.”
“Never,” Locke responded.The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the
of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here.ever transplanted into people came from animals born on this special research farm in the Blue Ridge mountains – behind locked gates, where entry requires washing down your vehicle, swapping your clothes for medical scrubs and stepping into tubs of disinfectant to clean your boots between each air-conditioned barn.
“These are precious animals,” said David Ayares of Revivicor Inc., who spent decades learning to clone pigs with just the right genetic changes to allow
The biosecurity gets even tighter just a few miles away in Christiansburg, Virginia, where a new herd is being raised – pigs expected to supply organs for formal studies of animal-to-human transplantation as soon as next year.Chelsea Pensioners Jack McCabe, left, and Tony Manley, right, look at the hat worn by Claire Myers-Lamptey designed by Mathew Eluwande for Nature Recovery, for communities to embrace re-wilding at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Chelsea Pensioners Jack McCabe, left, and Tony Manley, right, look at the hat worn by Claire Myers-Lamptey designed by Mathew Eluwande for Nature Recovery, for communities to embrace re-wilding at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Cordelia Bellew walks through a garden displaying James Doran-Webb Driftwood Sculptures at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Cordelia Bellew walks through a garden displaying James Doran-Webb Driftwood Sculptures at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)A show visitor looks towards a display of daffodils at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)