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

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

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

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after ... due to acute rejection," said Robert ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4 ... NPR had exclusive access to ...

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 ...

Pig kidney removed from Alabama woman a record 130 days after transplant - Xenotransplantation is experimental but has the ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...