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Woman who donated a kidney and her remaining kidney failed speaks after pig kidney transplantLast month, Towana Looney became the fifth American to get a gene-edited pig organ. Her operation marks the third time a kidney from a gene-edited pig has been transplanted into a living human.
Genetically modified pig organs may be the answer to the shortage of human organs for those in dire need of a transplant.
Recipient Towana Looney, of Alabama, is currently the only individual in the world living with a pig organ and was the first to receive a pig kidney with 10 gene edits. Looney received the ...
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