Woman receives pig kidney transplant
Last month, 53-year old Towana Looney, of Gadsden, Alabama, became the third patient to receive a kidney from a ...
Towana Looney says she feels "blessed" and now has a "second chance at life." Towana Looney became the fifth American to receive a gene-edited pig organ last month and is recovering well.
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 ...
The 7-hour surgery was performed on November 25, marking the third time that a kidney from a gene-edited pig has been transplanted into a living human. Recipient Towana Looney, of Alabama ...
Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients who died within two months of receiving a pig kidney or heart.
An Alabama woman is doing well after she received a pig kidney transplant last month, doctors have said. Towana Looney is the fifth American to be given a gene-edited pig organ. The ...
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