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

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

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

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

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

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living ...

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

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

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

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 ...

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.