Towana Looney
Meet Towana Looney, who is now the world’s longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant
Towana Looney is still thriving after receiving a pig organ transplant, making history in the process. She is the fifth patient to receive a gene-edited pig organ since 2022 and the third living human to undergo a pig kidney transplant. None of the previous recipients survived beyond two months. The Alabama woman, who is now considered…
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Woman who donated a kidney and her remaining kidney failed speaks after pig kidney transplant
Last month, Towana Looney became the fifth American to get a gene-edited pig organ. Her operation...