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 for more than four months with a kidney from a pig instead of her own damaged ones. But in early April, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

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

An Alabama woman named Towana Looney has lived the longest with a gene-edited pig kidney. She had it for 130 days before her doctors at NYU had to remove it earlier this month. Looney had been ...

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