An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected 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 lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

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

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

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.

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 ...