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

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

The term “pig butchering” has successfully raised public awareness of online scams that can drain people of their savings and financial livelihood. Unfortunately, the term has failed to get people to ...

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

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 ...

NPR visits first person to get a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney two weeks after undergoing the historic ...

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

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 ...