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

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

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant ... reduce the risk of blood clots. Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who led ...

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

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.

Renowned surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Robert Montgomery has revolutionized organ transplantation, expanding access and ...

In 2016, Looney was added to the kidney transplant list following her ... But there was a catch: Looney wouldn’t receive a human kidney. Instead, a pig’s kidney would be surgically implanted ...

It’s the longest a human has ever lived with ... treat an infection unrelated to the pig kidney,” Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute and chair of NYU ...

An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body ... Langone Health Center in New York, where Dr. Robert Montgomery surgically placed ...

Other transplant surgeons at Dr. Uygun’s hospital are starting to experiment with genetically modified pig kidneys. They have transplanted them into several human patients, with mixed outcomes.

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's ... reported. Dr. Robert Montgomery, who performed the transplant, said removal of the kidney ...

The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human organs for transplantation, took place Nov. 25, 2024. The kidney was ... nine years," Dr. Robert ...