Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

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

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"With the help of immunosuppressive drugs, Looney was doing so well with the pig kidney that she returned to her home in Alabama in February. But for reasons that are still being investigated ...

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

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

But he said Looney and her doctors agreed it would be less risky to remove the pig kidney than to try saving it with higher, ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy ... while simultaneously balancing the level of immunosuppression medications required to prevent rejection, especially in the ...