World's first recipient of pig kidney died due to heart attack Rick Slayman was the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig. Rick died in 2024 due to an ...

April 15 (UPI) --A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received ... contributed to a heart attack that Andrews suffered in July 2023 while awaiting an eventual transplant procedure.

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

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.

Towana Looney, a woman in her fifties from the southern state of Alabama, had received the genetically modified pig kidney on November ... eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...