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Twenty-five years after donating a kidney to her mother, an Alabama woman became the third human to receive a genetically engineered pig’s kidney, raising hopes for thousands of Americans on the ...

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. AP spoke with three people closely watching pig kidney development, including two who’ve asked about ...

Last month, a woman became the third living person to receive a pig kidney. Now, her kidney function is completely normal, and she's off dialysis. The transplant recipient — Towana Looney ...

Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ, after eight years on dialysis ...

Towana Looney knew that the first four people who ever received an organ from a pig died within two months. But the Gadsden, Alabama, woman was still game to try it herself. After eight years on ...

A 53-year-old Alabama woman is now free from years of dialysis after receiving a pig kidney transplant last month. "It's like a new beginning," Looney told The Associated Press. Right away ...

In yet another sign of xenotransplantation creeping toward reality, a medical team at NYU Langone Health announced Tuesday that, for the third time, a kidney from a genetically modified pig had ...

"It's going to change my life," says Looney, a 53-year-old grandmother, from Gadsden, Ala. She volunteered to become the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically ...