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

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

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

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting 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 ...

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

Towana Looney's body eventually rejected the animal organ, but previous recipients of such transplants did not survive past ...

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 ...

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'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 ...

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