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

A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

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

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.

In 2020, Luis Martinez received an unexpected and devastating diagnosis of stage four kidney failure — the result of ...

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

That includes sharing the procedure’s history ... it’s pretty similar to a regular kidney transplant surgery. You have the surgeon who’s starting the surgery and then surgeons go to the ...

Looney's relative success could lead to more procedures for ... ever recipient of a pig kidney transplant, Richard Slayman, died last May, two months after his surgery. While questions remain ...

Ms Towana Looney lived for four months with the animal’s organ before her body rejected it. Read more at straitstimes.com.

becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive. She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, staying at an apartment near ...