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

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

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

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 received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

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 Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

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

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

Why is pig’s kidney used for transplantation? Pigs are often used for xenotransplantation because their organs are similar in size and function to human organs. Xenotransplantation is the ...

Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ for a record 130 days. Towana ...