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TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...
Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.
WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record ... A New Hampshire man who received a pig kidney in January is faring well and a rigorous study of pig kidney transplants is set ...
An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.
When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ ...
An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...
Towana Looney, a woman in her fifties from the southern state of Alabama ... The decision to remove the pig kidney was taken ...
Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ ... which is a treatment for ...
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.