A pig would be butchered, and its spleen read by family and friends — with a shot of alcohol sometimes involved. The ritual continued when the family immigrated to Canada more than 100 years ago.

Yair Reisner and his colleagues, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describe their bid to cure hemophilia A in mice by means of fetal pig spleen tissue transplantation.

“Pig’s thinkers, Davey ... addition of garlic vinegar as an “antidote” to a dish of grilled goat’s spleen. But offal exists in many less formidable forms, and it is high time to ...

The outline of the spleen is divided into six equal forecast sections, representing the months from January to June. (Matt Howard/CBC) The tradition dates back hundreds of years to rural Sweden, where ...