In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney ...

Towana Looney’s body eventually rejected the animal organ, but previous recipients of such transplants did not survive past ...

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Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ for a record 130 days. Towana ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

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

Doctors were unable to find a compatible human donor, and the patient was ultimately cleared to receive a genetically ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it but her four months ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...

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.

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.