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.

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after her body rejected the organ, NYU Langone Health reported.

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in a woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

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

One of the stars of the Discovery Channel docudrama series Moonshiners recently underwent emergency surgery and had a kidney removed following a ruptured main artery.

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

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