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An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...
A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.
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.
TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...
An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.
Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ ... which is a treatment for ...
Looney was admitted to a hospital in Alabama, then flew to New York ... and said it plans to start a clinical trial of pig-kidney transplantation later this year. It will begin with six patients ...
ALABAMA - Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her ... Her body's eventual ...
Alabama, was taking to tamp down her immune response to the pig kidney. On April 4, 130 days after her transplant, the kidney was removed, according to a news release from NYU-Langone, which ...
Ms. Looney, who has returned to her home in Alabama after coming to New ... The company expects to start a clinical trial of pig-kidney transplantation this year, starting with six patients ...