A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

In 2020, Luis Martinez received an unexpected and devastating diagnosis of stage four kidney failure — the result of ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

A Bellingham woman is celebrating 50 years since she underwent a kidney transplant in 1975, which was a relatively new ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

Ms Towana Looney lived for four months with the animal’s organ before her body rejected it. Read more at straitstimes.com.

becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive. She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, staying at an apartment near ...