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'
An Alabama woman has “never felt better” after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig, reports the New York Times ...
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 ...
An Alabama woman is 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 eight years.
Woman speaks out after receiving gene-edited pig kidney transplant
Towana Looney became the fifth American to receive a gene-edited pig organ and is recovering well post-transplant.
Woman recovering after risky pig kidney transplant. It could 'help so many people.'
Four people who received pig organs died within two months of transplant. Now an Alabama woman hopes for a better outcome.
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 ...
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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, ...
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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Inside the operating room of a new kind of pig kidney transplant
Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig last ...
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.
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Woman recovering after risky pig kidney transplant. It could 'help so many people.'
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 ...