Looney then developed a rare complication while pregnant, according to Siegel, which led to kidney failure. NYU Langone Transplant Institute Director Dr. Robert Montgomery called Looney a "hero ...

you’ll need dialysis or a kidney transplant. Avoid playing any contact sports that could lead to kidney injury. If you do play contact sports, padding and other protective gear make kidney ...

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after ...

A 53-year-old Alabama woman is now free from years of dialysis after receiving a pig kidney transplant last month. "It's like a new beginning," Looney told The Associated Press. Right away ...

New Model for Replication of BKPyV Virus, a Major Cause of Kidney Transplant Failure Dec. 6, 2024 — BK polyomavirus, or BKPyV, is a major cause of kidney transplant failure. There are no ...

Mumbai's first organ donation of 2025 occurred at MGM Hospital, with a grieving family donating a 50-year-old man's kidneys and liver to three recipients.

This is the third time doctors have performed a kidney transplant with an organ from a genetically modified pig. In April, the same team at NYU Langone treated a 54-year-old New Jersey woman named ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — A Providence bait shop owner is ready to live life to the fullest following a successful kidney transplant. NBC 10 first spoke with David Henault back in August when he ...

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 ...

Looney's transplant is the third time a kidney from a gene-edited pig has been transplanted into a living human, but prior transplants have been for people who were brain dead or at high risk of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A medical center at Ohio State University recently performed a rare 20-person living kidney donor transplant chain, completing 20 surgeries over two days, the university announced.