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

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

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Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

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Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. He and her doctors decided it would be less risky to remove the pig's kidney than to try saving it. "We did the safe thing ...

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

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...