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

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...

Towana Looney lived for more than four months with a kidney from a pig instead of her own damaged ones. But in early April, ...

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 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.

On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

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

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

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 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.