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

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

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

Now researchers are attempting these transplants in slightly less sick patients, like Looney. A New Hampshire man who ...

This surgery is part of a growing effort to use genetically altered pig organs to help deal with a shortage of human organs for transplant. HealthDay News — A Chinese woman is the third person in the ...

HealthDay News — A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks ... Lin Wang, part of the transplant team, said the kidney is working ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney ... Lin Wang, part of the transplant team, said the kidney is working well and the patient is still being ...

(HealthDay News) — A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney ... Lin Wang, part of the transplant team, said the kidney is working well and the ...

But Towana Looney, the third living person to receive a gene-edited pig kidney, has been doing well. She had her transplant surgery in late November of last year. “I am full of energy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants ... third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney.