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 ...

FILE - Lisa Pisano looks at photos of her dog after her surgeries at NYU Langone Health in New York on Monday, April 22, 2024. Pisano, who received a pig kidney transplant -- along with an implanted ...

Towana Looney, from Alabama, is only the fifth person to be given a gene-edited pig organ since 2022 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Towana Looney is the fifth patient to be given a gene-edited pig organ since 2022, none of whom survived two months ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty An Alabama woman has become the longest living recipient ...

A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant — along with an implanted device to keep her heart beating – has died, her surgeon announced Tuesday. Lisa Pisano was near death from ...

An Alabama woman has become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant. Towana Looney, 53, passed the milestone on Saturday, Jan. 25, when she was reported to be "healthy and full of ...