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

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

Pig kidney removed from Alabama woman a record 130 days after transplant - Xenotransplantation is experimental but has the ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...

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

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

Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, Alabama. In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to ...