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A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...
An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.
A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...
Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, ...
A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.
Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn’t qualify for a regular transplant – her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned ...
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.
When she heard about the option to try a pig kidney transplantation, she jumped at the chance to try it. “Without a pathway to receiving a human kidney, she decided a gene-edited pig kidney was ...
Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ for a record 130 days. Towana ...