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.

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.

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 ...

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

The first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists in China, according to a new ...

In 2013, Wang and his colleagues were the first in China to successfully transplant a pig liver into a monkey, which survived 14 days. The team said it has also done pig-to-monkey heart ...

including heart and kidney transplants. Dr. Wang and his team were the first in China to transplant a pig liver into a monkey, which survived for 14 days, in 2013. They have since also performed ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant ... University in Xi'an China Scientists are genetically ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a ... eGenesis is studying that approach.

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