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Meet Towana Looney, who is now the world’s longest living recipient of a pig organ transplantTowana Looney is still thriving after receiving a pig organ transplant, making history in the process. She is the fifth patient to receive a gene-edited pig organ since 2022 and the third living ...
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Alabama woman sets record with pig organ, expert calls it a new 'hope for life'A milestone was reached in animal transplants in humans. In late January, an Alabama woman by the name of Towana Looney ...
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She's a medical miracle. Could her animal transplant success be just the beginning?NEW YORK ‒ If records are meant to be broken, Towana Looney is grateful to be a record-breaker. Looney has been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own. The longest ...
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Grandma with pig kidney leaves New York, heads home to AlabamaThree months after making medical history, Towana Looney—the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney—is leaving New York City and heading home to Alabama, feeling ...
The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney is returning home Feb. 25, three months after the breakthrough surgery. In late November, Towana Looney, 53, underwent ...
NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney ...
In late November, Towana Looney, 53, underwent transplant surgery at New York City-based NYU Langone. Ms. Looney received the first 10-gene-edited pig kidney, becoming the third person in the ...
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