In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

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

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

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

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

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

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

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...

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

Washington (AFP) – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but ...