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

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

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

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

Towana Looney, a woman in her fifties from Alabama, had received the genetically modified pig kidney on November 25 in New ...

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 ...

On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a ...

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

Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, Alabama. In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to ...

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