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

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

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 ...

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

For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

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

Tytiana Looney (left) and her mother, Towana Looney, of Gadsden, Alabama, who has survived longer than anyone else so far ...

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

Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after her body rejected the organ, NYU Langone Health reported. Towana Looney, 53, had the transplanted organ for 130 ...

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

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

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