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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 lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...
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.
An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...
The decision to remove the pig kidney was taken jointly by Looney and her doctors, in order to preserve "future possibilities ...
Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...
A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...
Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...
The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...
but no transplant lasted longer than two months and patients who were severely ill before the surgery died. A New Hampshire ...
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.