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

An Alabama woman has “never felt better” after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig, reports the New York Times ...

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

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

Towana Looney became the fifth American to receive a gene-edited pig organ and is recovering well post-transplant.

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

The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving ...

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

Looney's slow recovery has sparked hope that one day pig kidneys could assist in alleviating the ongoing organ shortage, ...

Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig last ...

An Alabama woman is "living healthily" more than a month after receiving a gene-edited kidney obtained from a pig.

Three genes were eliminated to avoid an immediate immune rejection after the transplant, Montgomery said. A fourth gene was "knocked out" to prevent the pig kidney from continuing to grow after it ...