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 ...
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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 ...
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Alabama woman doing well after gene-edited pig kidney transplant: "It's like a new beginning"
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 ...
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Alabama Woman Receives Nation’s Third Pig Kidney Transplant
Ms. Looney is the fifth patient to receive an organ from a genetically modified pig in the United States since 2022, and just the third to receive a kidney. (Two men have received porcine hearts ...
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Alabama woman doing well after groundbreaking pig kidney transplant
An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs.Towana Looney is ...
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Alabama woman doing well after latest experimental pig kidney transplant
An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. Towana Looney is ...