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

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn’t qualify for a regular transplant – her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had ... since 2016 and was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney, according to a report by the AP. Since the procedure, she ...

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.