When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ ...

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

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

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

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

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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