US EditionAn Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant
- An Alabama woman is recovering well after an experimental pig kidney transplant.
- The procedure is part of ongoing research into organ transplants.
- Doctors aim for advancements in addressing organ shortages through this transplant.
- This kidney transplant marks a significant step in xenotransplantation research.
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An Alabama woman is recovering well after receiving a pig kidney transplant last month, saving her from having to go back to dialysis, in the latest attempt to use animal organs to save lives.
Alabama Woman's Successful Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant Marks Medical Milestone - Real News Now
The holidays spring to life with countless Santa Claus sightings, some even marking their presence on the news media. One such Santa Claus character recently grabbed the media attention, and for a commendable reason to his post. A tale that highlights a woman from Alabama, Towana Looney, who displayed an act of unconditional love twenty-five years ago by donating her kidney to her mother, as unveiled by an Associated Press source. However, the t…
A woman from Alabama is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that released her from eight years of dialysis, the last effort to save human lives with animal organs.
A woman from Alabama is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that released her from eight years of dialysis, the last effort to save human lives with animal organs. Towana Looney is the fifth American to receive a genetically edited pig organ and, notably, is not as ill as the previous recipients who died within two months of receiving a pig’s kidney or heart. “It’s like a new start,” Looney, 53, told The Associated Press. Im…
“I feel like I've been given a second chance at life,” the patient said, as quoted in a press release, three weeks after the operation. Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 and has lived for the past eight years on dialysis after a medical complication during a pregnancy that damaged her remaining kidney. This American woman, who lives in Alabama, in the southern United States, had been waiting for a transplant since 2017 and was…
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