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

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

Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.

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

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

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

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in a woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with ...

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

“We demonstrated that gut metabolites impact the brain, and the brain, in turn, affects behavior,” study author Lisa ...

Key Takeaways A pig kidney was removed from a woman after 130 days due to rejectionThis is the longest a genetically modified pig kidney has lasted in a humanThis is still progress in animal-to-human ...

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

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