The treatment seeks to inhibit the body's immune system to prevent it from attacking the implanted organ, but it also weakens the body's ability to fight off external infections. The decision to ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...

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

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...

Her body began rejecting the pig kidney after a record 130 days. AP Before Looney’s transplant only four other Americans had received experimental xenotransplants of gene-edited pig organs ...

but it also weakens the body’s ability to fight off external infections. The decision to remove the pig kidney was taken jointly by Ms Looney and her doctors, in order to preserve “future ...

Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ ...

but it also weakens the body's ability to fight off external infections. The decision to remove the pig kidney was taken jointly by Looney and her doctors, in order to preserve "future ...