An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday.. Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after ...

Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine.

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 ...

Just last month, a woman became the third living recipient of a pig kidney transplant. Now, her kidney is functioning well, and she no longer requires dialysis. The transplant recipient was 53 ...

In yet another sign of xenotransplantation creeping toward reality, a medical team at NYU Langone Health announced Tuesday that, for the third time, a kidney from a genetically modified pig had ...

Towana Looney, a woman from Alabama who last year became the third person to undergo a pig kidney transplant, is reportedly still recovering well after her surgery. Having now passed two months ...

An Alabama woman who had been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant since 2017 just became the third-ever recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney. Fifty-three-year-old Towana Looney had ...

Looney's transplant is the third time a kidney from a gene-edited pig has been transplanted into a living human, but prior transplants have been for people who were brain dead or at high risk of ...

She became the third human to receive a genetically engineered pig’s kidney, raising hopes for thousands of Americans on the waiting list for organ transplants. December 17, 2024 5 min ...

By Deidre McPhillips, Jen Christensen and Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person.

Third-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Still Doing Well A Record 2 Months On From Surgery Towana Looney just became the longest-surviving recipient of a gene-edited pig organ.