or the practice of transplanting animal organs into humans. Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late ...

The world's longest-lasting pig ... transplants in the U.S., according to the federal government, and about 17 die every day waiting. Some researchers worry that pig organs could spread animal ...

Towana Looney lived for more than four months with a kidney from a pig instead of her ... is being monitored after her transplant. Looney, 53, had turned to an animal organ after years of not ...

WASHINGTON — On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal ... receive a pig heart transplant.

Dr Robert Montgomery, who performed the transplant, said removal of the kidney, also called an “explant”, is not a step backward in the field of xenotransplantation (the use of animal organs ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

WASHINGTON – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with the animal’s organ set a record, the hospital ...

More than 103,000 people are waiting for organ transplants in the U.S., according to the federal government, and about 17 die every day waiting. Some researchers worry that pig organs could spread ...