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, ...

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

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 ...

Towana Looney, a woman in her fifties from Alabama, had received the genetically modified pig kidney on November 25 in New ...

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

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

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's transplanted pig kidney was removed after 130 days due to rejection. This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits ...