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

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

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

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

Two of them received hearts and the others received kidneys, but no transplant lasted longer than two months and patients who ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

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