WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

Researchers have successfully developed nerve grafts, currently being trialed as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, that ...

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A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

Rep. Phillip Rigsby, a pharmacist from Huntsville, said the purpose is to set ethical and moral guidelines to prepare for ...

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It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...