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

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

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

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

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.

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, after her body rejected the ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

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

In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to be part of this incredible research.” Towana Looney, a pig ...

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains a distant goal, but ...