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.

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

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

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.

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

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

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal ...

Why is pig’s kidney used for transplantation? Pigs are often used for xenotransplantation because their organs are similar in size and function to human organs. Xenotransplantation is the ...

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...