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

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ ...

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 ...

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

For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in a woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with ...

The company praised Looney's bravery and said it plans to start a clinical trial of pig-kidney transplantation later this year. It will begin with six patients and grow to 50. Pig organs are being ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.