Ripsaw (sometimes Rip-saw, Rip-Saw, RipSawor The Duluth Rip-Saw) is a defunct Duluth, Minnesota newspaper published from 1917 to 1926 and again from 1999 to 2005. In its original incarnation, the paper was a scandal sheet with a reputation for muckraking, sensationalism and criminal libel. It returned after a 73-year hiatus with a somewhat similar style, but made several stark transformations before folding a second time.

Mystery disease strikes brain blowers at the Quality Pork Processors, in Austin, Minnesota. Whatever you do, DON"T inhale...

Workers in a Minnesota slaughterhouse have developed a new disease that doctors suspect is caused by inhaling microscopic particles of pig brain. The worker's immune system attacks the particles, but then goes to work on the person's own nerve cells because they're so similar.

University of Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells.

Scientists at the University of Minnesota have taken a big step toward making replacement organs with the recipients' cells. In experiments performed on rats and pigs, www.MyVideoWish.com

Ill workers at an Indiana slaughterhouse where compressed air was used to remove pig brains have symptoms similar to those involved in an earlier outbreak in Minnesota, federal health officials said Wednesday...