A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

or the practice of transplanting animal organs into humans. Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig ... of animal viruses. As science progresses, xenotransplantation could become a life-saving alternative for patients waiting for transplants, but ethical ...

Towana Looney's transplanted pig kidney was removed after 130 days due to rejection. This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant ... with an animal organ ‒ suddenly ...

WASHINGTON – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with the animal’s organ set a record, the hospital ...

The world's longest-lasting pig ... transplants in the U.S., according to the federal government, and about 17 die every day waiting. Some researchers worry that pig organs could spread animal ...

Towana Looney lived for more than four months with a kidney from a pig instead of her ... is being monitored after her transplant. Looney, 53, had turned to an animal organ after years of not ...