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

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the organ.

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

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors have announced. Towana Looney from Alabama is recovering ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American ... the chair of surgery and director of the hospital's transplant institute. He added: "What triggered the rejection episode ...

Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery ... for a regular transplant - her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a disappointment in the ...

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