An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after ...

Towana Looney, a woman from Alabama who last year became the third person to undergo a pig kidney transplant, is reportedly still recovering well after her surgery. Having now passed two months ...

Just last month, a woman became the third living recipient of a pig kidney transplant. Now, her kidney is functioning well, and she no longer requires dialysis. The transplant recipient was 53 ...

A 53-year-old Alabama woman with kidney failure who waited eight years for an organ transplant has received a kidney harvested from a genetically modified pig, NYU Langone Health surgeons ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a third person, moving xenotransplants closer to trials Recipient had donated a kidney to her mother, then no human organ could be found for her ...

She became the third human to receive a genetically engineered pig’s kidney, raising hopes for thousands of Americans on the waiting list for organ transplants.

Looney's transplant is the third time a kidney from a gene-edited pig has been transplanted into a living human, but prior transplants have been for people who were brain dead or at high risk of ...

An Alabama woman who had been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant since 2017 just became the third-ever recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney. Fifty-three-year-old Towana Looney had ...

Chinese researchers are reporting two new steps in the quest for pig-to-human organ transplants: a successful pig kidney transplant and an experiment with a pig liver.

Third-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Still Doing Well A Record 2 Months On From Surgery Towana Looney just became the longest-surviving recipient of a gene-edited pig organ.

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...