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

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

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

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.

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.

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

She lived with a pig kidney longer than any other human in history ... she also now boasts the world’s longest-lasting pig organ transplant. She also expressed gratitude for taking part in ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs. More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list ...

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

It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig organ ... The US Food and Drug Administration allows doctors to transplant organs from pigs into humans under what’s commonly known as ...