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

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

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

"Though the outcome is not what anyone wanted, I know a lot was learned from my 130 days with a pig kidney ‒ and that ... hoping for a living person to donate one of their kidneys or for someone ...

An Alabama woman living with a ... to damage the new kidney, he said. In May of last year, Lisa Pisano, the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, also had to have her kidney ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

(CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived ...