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

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place a record 130 days.

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 ...

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 with a pig organ, ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the routine procedure would give her mother a new lease on life and herself ...

Towana Looney, a woman in her fifties from Alabama, had received the genetically modified pig kidney on November 25 in New York. The highly experimental procedure had fueled optimism that animal ...

When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ transplants. The procedure took place at the NYU Langone Health Center ...

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 ...

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 with a pig ...

Towana Looney lived for more than four months with a kidney from a pig instead of her own damaged ones. But in early April, her body ‒ which had tolerated the kidney longer than any human had ...