In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a ...

So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned well — she ... It’s an even bigger challenge with xenotransplantation. While these pig organs have been altered to help prevent immediate ...

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors have announced. Towana Looney from Alabama is recovering ...

HealthDay News — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig’s kidney from an Alabama ... is not a step backward in the field of xenotransplantation (the use of animal organs in humans).

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after ...

Lauren says xenotransplantation has actually been ... operating room for this really experimental surgery to test the pig kidney in this brain dead donor whose name is Moe. Moe’s family had ...