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 ...

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

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

Nearly a year after performing the first transplant of a pig kidney into a living human recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, reported that a second patient is doing well after ...

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 ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she ... Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. She received the ...