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A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...
An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...
Towana Looney's transplanted pig kidney was removed after 130 days due to rejection. This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits ...
Beneath it sits the kidney of a genetically ... one of those genetically modified pigs. They brought it back to the hospital on ice, and during a two-and-a-half-hour surgery, attached it to ...
Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ ...
Read full article: 17-year-old gets half-million-dollar bond in Macomb ... WASHINGTON – An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...