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

The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate. View on ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

Renowned surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Robert Montgomery has revolutionized organ transplantation, expanding access and ...