An NYU Langone Health patient lived with a pig kidney for 130 days before she experienced an organ rejection. On April 4, the ...

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Towana Looney, 53, had the transplanted organ for 130 days, the longest anyone has ever tolerated an organ from a genetically altered pig. She has now started dialysis again, the hospital reported.

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors have announced. Towana Looney from Alabama is recovering ...

Towana Looney, 53, had the transplanted organ for 130 days — the longest anyone has ever tolerated an organ from a genetically altered pig. She has now started dialysis again, the hospital reported.

Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the routine procedure would give her mother a new lease on life and herself ...

Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, Alabama. In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to ...