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

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

Towana Looney’s body eventually rejected the animal organ, but previous recipients of such transplants did not survive past ...

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.

Asia's first gene-edited pig kidney transplant patient has maintained stable kidney function for more than 30 days after ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

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

In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney ...

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

Australian researchers are poised to become the first in the world to take pancreatic islet cells from genetically modified ...

Researchers in China have carried out the first ... Last year, surgeons in the US carried out the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a male subject, who was able to be ...

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers ...