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

The pig kidney, genetically modified to reduce the risk of rejection, was implanted on November 25, 2024. For over four months, the kidney functioned effectively, allowing Looney to experience a life ...

Towana Looney, a woman in her fifties from the southern state of Alabama, had received the genetically modified pig kidney on ...

The transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a human patient is a groundbreaking achievement in the field of xenotransplantation, which aims to address the critical shortage of human donor ...

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

In a significant milestone for transplant medicine, doctors at NYU Langone Hospital have revealed that Towana Looney, a woman in her fifties from Alabama, lived for 130 days with a genetically ...

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

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. Three volunteers fired ...

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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 be ...