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

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

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

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.

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.

Ms Towana Looney lived for four months with the animal’s organ before her body rejected it. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive. She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, staying at an apartment near ...

Doctors were unable to find a compatible human donor, and the patient was ultimately cleared to receive a genetically ...

Those recipients, who were severely ill before the surgery, died ... FILKE - Towana Looney, a pig kidney transplant recipient, gets a morning check-up with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at NYU Langone ...