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

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig ... 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 ...

Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, ...

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

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

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

Scientists are genetically ... need a kidney, and thousands die waiting. Before Looney's transplant only four other Americans had received experimental xenotransplants of gene-edited pig organs ...

Ms Towana Looney, a woman in her 50s from the US southern state of Alabama, had received the genetically modified pig ... human kidneys. Her body’s eventual rejection of the transplant showed ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered ... had lived with the gene-edited pig kidney for 130 days. She lived with the organ longer than any other transplant patient has tolerated ...