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

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

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

On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

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

the biotech company that developed the modified pig kidney – known as a UKidney – celebrated the bravery and enthusiasm Looney has shown throughout the xenotransplantation journey.

marking another step forward in the burgeoning field of xenotransplantation, or the practice of transplanting animal organs into humans. (CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana ...