As I lit a cigarette on the back deck at my Paxton home on Saturday evening, all the pain I held in my heart spilled out from within. I collapsed to my knees, sobbing uncontrollably as my head sank to ...

Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients who ...

2024 marked a big year for the field of xenotransplantation, with surgical teams at several health systems completing historic procedures that could pave the way for broader adoption of ...

A n Alabama woman who had been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant since 2017 just became the third-ever recipient of ...

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

A 53-year-old Alabama woman is recovering after undergoing a pig kidney transplant in New York City on Nov. 25. She said ...

It's a medical miracle for a Central Alabama woman.52-year-old Towana Looney of Gadsden donated a kidney to her mother in ...

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

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

The 53-year-old grandmother has been living without dialysis since the surgery, which took place in November but was not ...