An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

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

Towana Looney has returned home to Gadsden after undergoing surgery a week ago. She is now back on dialysis, which is a ...

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived ... Animal-to-human transplants involve organs or tissues from non-human animals to treat human medical conditions.

Alabama. In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to be part of this incredible research.” Towana Looney, a pig kidney transplant recipient, gets a morning check-up with Dr.

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

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

Looney was admitted to a hospital in Alabama, then flew to New York ... and said it plans to start a clinical trial of pig-kidney transplantation later this year. It will begin with six patients ...

The transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a human patient is a groundbreaking achievement in the field of xenotransplantation, which aims to address the critical shortage of human donor ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...