Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

Towana Looney, a woman in her fifties from the southern state of Alabama, had received the genetically modified pig kidney on ...

FDA approves first human trial to transplant pig livers, offering hope for patients with severe liver failure.

Key Takeaways A pig kidney was removed from a woman after 130 days due to rejectionThis is the longest a genetically modified pig kidney has lasted in a humanThis is still progress in animal-to-human ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

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

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable ... was ultimately cleared to receive a genetically modified pig kidney. Though early results were encouraging, "in early ...

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

The transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a human patient is a groundbreaking achievement in the field of xenotransplantation, which aims to address the critical shortage of human donor ...

Looney's relative success could lead to more procedures for alternative organ transplants ... Montgomery surgically placed the genetically modified kidney inside Looney. Looney lived with the ...