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

Emergency transplants haven't yielded survival past two months — although a woman transplanted last month so far is faring ...

Four people who received pig organs died within two months of transplant. Now an Alabama woman hopes for a better outcome.

From a pig kidney transplant to restoring genetic deafness, 2024 was a year full of medical breakthroughs. The breakthroughs ...

Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than ...

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old Alabama woman, is now free from years of dialysis after receiving an experimental pig kidney ...

NYU Langone Health announced that, for the third time, a genetically modified pig kidney had been transplanted into a living ...

The patient was in kidney failure and her immune system would reject a human organ. Scientists hope genetically modified pig ...

2024 marked a big year for the field of xenotransplantation, with surgical teams at several health systems completing historic procedures that could pave the way for broader adoption of ...

An Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month and is free from dialysis for the first time in eight years ...

This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons. Towana Looney, 53, miraculously walked out of the hospital just a few days following the procedure. In an NYU Langone ...

In the meantime, Looney's new pig kidney appears to be functioning well, and her recovery is proceeding faster than expected. In fact, she was discharged from the hospital to an apartment near the ...