这位勇敢的女士曾将自己的一颗肾脏捐献给了母亲，但不幸的是，她剩下的那颗肾脏后来也衰竭了。在长达九年的时间里，她的生活完全被透析治疗所束缚，直到在纽约大学朗格尼医学中心 (NYU Langone ...

近日，异种移植领域迎来了重大进展。一颗经过基因工程改造的猪肾在患者体内成功“工作”了130天，创造了人类使用猪器官存活时间的新纪录。这颗猪肾让53岁的Towana Looney在无需透析的情况下度过了130天，为异种移植技术的发展带来了新的希望。

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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