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

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.

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

In 2016, Looney was added to the kidney transplant list following her ... But there was a catch: Looney wouldn’t receive a human kidney. Instead, a pig’s kidney would be surgically implanted ...

For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant ... reduce the risk of blood clots. Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who led ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney ... said Dr. Parsia Vagefi, a liver transplant surgeon at UT ...