Why a Recent Pig Kidney Transplant Is a Major Advance
The 53-year-old woman who received the genetically modified animal organ is the ideal recipient to push science forward.
Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance'
Towana Looney of Alabama received a successful pig kidney transplant. NYU Langone Drs. Robert Montgomery and Marc Siegel ...
Alabama woman doing well after gene-edited pig kidney transplant: "It's like a new beginning"
Towana Looney, a 53-year-old Alabama woman, is now free from years of dialysis after receiving an experimental pig kidney ...
Alabama woman doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant
An Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month and is free from dialysis for the first time in eight years ...
After years on transplant wait list, Alabama grandmother receives kidney from gene-edited pig
Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than ...
U.S. woman in good health after kidney transplant from pig
An Alabama woman is "living healthily" more than a month after receiving a gene-edited kidney obtained from a pig.
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An Alabama Woman Got a Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant. Three Weeks Later, She Has ‘Never Felt Better’
On November 25, 53-year-old Towana Looney became just the third living person to receive a pig kidney in an experimental ...
Woman, 53, Has ‘Never Felt Better' After Undergoing Pig Kidney Transplant: 'It's Like a New Beginning'
Towana Looney, 53, underwent surgery using the organ from a genetically manipulated pig on Nov. 25 at NYU Langone Health ...
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Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance'
Siegel commended Looney on her "incredible" journey, which began when she donated her own kidney ... from an organ transplant continues to increase," he added. Out of the seven pig organ ...
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Woman who donated a kidney and her remaining kidney failed speaks after pig kidney transplant
Looney's slow recovery has sparked hope that one day pig kidneys could assist in alleviating the ongoing organ shortage, ...