WATCH: Woman receives kidney transplant grown from pig

Towana Looney is only the fifth person in the world to receive a genetically-modified organ from a pig.

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A Woman on Our Girls’ Trip Has Grown Snarky. Can We Stop Inviting Her?

Her bitter comments and antisocial behavior may spring from discomfort around her high-achieving friends, but that doesn’t make her any easier to deal with.
The New York Times - 3h
Alabama Woman Receives Nation’s Third Pig Kidney Transplant

The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.
The New York Times - 22h
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 in eight years
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Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant

People worried they'll never get a scarce human transplant want to know when they might get a pig kidney instead
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A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney

A 53-year-old woman was the third to undergo the transplant procedure. Researchers are hoping to monitor the long-term effects.
Wired - 1d
An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis

An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis
ABC News - 1d
Surgeons implant new kind of engineered pig kidney

Surgeons successfully completed the fifth gene-edited pig organ transplant for an Alabama woman who needed a new kidney. Towana Looney, 53, underwent the procedure after eight years of dialysis. ...
The Hill - 20h
Alabama woman doing well after gene-edited pig kidney transplant

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old Alabama woman, is now free from years of dialysis after receiving an experimental pig kidney transplant last month.
CBS News - 1d
Why the first successful pig kidney transplant offers new hope for thousands awaiting donors

NYU Langone Health announced the groundbreaking transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a 53-year-old Alabama woman. Now free from dialysis, she is the only person in the world living with a ...
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