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Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, ...
A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
Towana Looney lived for more than four months with a kidney from a pig instead of her own damaged ones. But in early April, ...
Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...
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 lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons removed a genetically ...
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...
Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, Alabama. In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to ...
A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected 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 ...