Towana Looney, who received the experimental treatment during a seven-hour operation in New York, is currently the only ...

Towana Looney became the fifth American to receive a gene-edited pig organ last month and is recovering well. Looney's ...

Towana Looney of Alabama received a successful pig kidney transplant. NYU Langone Drs. Robert Montgomery and Marc Siegel ...

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

Thousands of people in the U.S. are waiting for organ transplants but there are not enough donors. One solution to the ...

The 53-year-old grandmother has been living without dialysis since the surgery, which took place in November but was not ...

An Alabama woman has “never felt better” after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig, reports the New York Times’ Roni Caryn Rabin. When she underwent transplant surgery last month, ...

Towana Looney knew that the first four people who ever received an organ from a pig died within two months. But the Gadsden, Alabama, woman was still game to try it herself. After eight years on ...

A 53-year-old Alabama woman is now free from years of dialysis after receiving a pig kidney transplant last month. "It's like a new beginning," Looney told The Associated Press. Right away ...