Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

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

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 ...

A Chinese patient is the third person in the world known ... steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint that pig livers ...

In 2016, Looney was added to the kidney transplant list following ... The surgery was a success, making her only the third person in the world to receive a pig kidney and the only one living ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney ... Lin Wang, part of the transplant team, said the kidney is working well and the patient is still being ...

(CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived ...