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 ...

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.

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

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

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

Researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by ...

Looney's transplant was part of a larger effort to provide genetically engineered pig organs to help solve the human organ shortage. A handful of other patients have received pig kidneys and hearts.

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 ...