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

New York, New York - 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 ...

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 ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the ... Friday – a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants. Towana Looney is recovering well ...

An NYU Langone Health patient lived with a pig kidney for 130 days before she experienced an organ rejection. On April 4, the ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons removed 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 began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a ...