He added, “Towana’s willingness to endeavor into the unknown to help ... The world’s first-ever recipient of a pig kidney transplant, Richard Slayman, died last May, two months after his ...

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

First, they had to see if their ... starting to experiment with genetically modified pig kidneys. They have transplanted them into several human patients, with mixed outcomes.

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney ... animal kidneys might prove a usable source amid a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed ...

In 2016, Looney was added to the kidney transplant list following her pregnancy which forced her only kidney into overdrive ... t receive a human kidney. Instead, a pig’s kidney would be ...

Towana Looney, 53, had the transplanted ... Pig organs are being studied as a possible answer to the shortage of donated human organs. Right now, more than 550,000 people in the U.S. have kidney ...

Pigs are an interesting option for liver transplants as their organs have a similar size and physiological function to the human ... first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into ...

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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or ...