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

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

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...

In May of last year, Lisa Pisano, the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, also had to have her kidney removed to resume dialysis. More than 100,000 people are on the U.S ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...

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 ...

"For the first time since 2016 ... her health deteriorating -- was ultimately cleared to receive a genetically modified pig kidney. Though early results were encouraging, "in early April, she ...