The human immune system immediately recognizes those animal ... Chinese researchers also recently announced a pig kidney ...

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors have announced. Towana Looney from Alabama is recovering ...

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

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

Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn’t qualify for a regular transplant — her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned well — ...

Researchers won’t transplant the pig liver but instead will attach ... It’s the latest step in attempts to use gene-edited ...

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

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

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it.

Looney has been receiving dialysis since 2016 and was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney ... with a gene-edited pig organ. Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early ...

WASHINGTON – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted ... a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body’s eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable ...

Why is pig’s kidney used for transplantation? Pigs are often used for xenotransplantation because their organs are similar in size and function to human organs. Xenotransplantation is the ...