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 ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a ...

But a New Hampshire man who is now living with a pig kidney is giving some researchers hope there's a temporary solution. "Immediately following the transplant, it just changed his life," Mike ...

Towana Looney, a pig kidney transplant recipient, gets a morning check-up with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at NYU Langone Health in New York, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. AP “Though the outcome is not what ...

Nearly a year after performing the first transplant of a pig kidney into a living human recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, reported that a second patient is doing well after ...

The early success of the first transplant of a pig kidney into a living person has raised researchers’ hopes that larger clinical trials involving pig organs will soon become a reality.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants - with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint that pig livers might eventually be useful, too ...

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains a distant goal, but doctors took some hope since the pig kidney did its blood-filtering work ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually ...