USA TODAY – For more and to sign up click here Ashleigh Fields Surgeons successfully completed the fifth gene-edited pig organ transplant for an Alabama woman who needed a new kidney. Towana Looney, 53, underwent the procedure after eight years of dialysis. “It’s like a new beginning,” Looney, 53, told the Associated Press. Right away, “the energy I had was amazing. To have a working… Source

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Surgeons implant new kind of engineered pig kidney

The US’ long waiting list for transplants could be shortened with the use of genetically modified animal organs. This farm is key to process.

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Farm breeds pigs for human kidney transplant; it’s a blessing, patient says

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WASHINGTON - Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 only for the remaining one to fail years later due to pregnancy complications.

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'Blessed': US woman sees second chance in life after pig kidney transplant

Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 only for the remaining one to fail several years later due to pregnancy complications.

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Towana Looney, a 53-year-old from Alabama, is the fifth patient to receive an organ from a genetically modified pig in the United States since 2022, and was in better health than prior recipients who died within two months of receiving a pig kidney or heart. Her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.

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US woman sees second chance at life after pig kidney transplant

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old American woman whose only kidney was no longer functioning, in November became the third living person in the world to receive a pig kidney transplant.

Towana Looney, o americancă în vârstă de 53 de ani al cărei singur rinichi nu mai era funcţional, a devenit în luna noiembrie cea de-a treia persoană în viaţă din lume căreia medicii i-au transplantat un rinichi de porc.

Un nou transplant al unui rinichi de porc a scăpat o femeie de dializă. „Mi s-a dat o a doua şansă la viaţă”

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A new pig kidney transplant saved a woman from dialysis. "I was given a second chance at life"

Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 only for the remaining one to fail several years later due to pregnancy complications. Now, the 53-year-old from Alabama has become the latest recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney - and is currently the only living person in the world with an animal organ transplant,...

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'Blessed': US woman sees second chance in life after pig kidney

On a farm in the state of Virginia, in the south of the United States, David Ayares and his research teams raise genetically modified pigs to transplant their organs to human patients.Revivicor, the biotechnological company that runs Ayares, is at the forefront of xenotherplant research – implantation of animal organs in human beings – whose aim is to solve the chronic shortage of organs that causes the death of thousands of Americans every year…

En una granja del estado de Virginia, en el sur de Estados Unidos, David Ayares y sus equipos de investigación crían cerdos modificados genéticamente para trasplantar sus órganos a pacientes humanos.Revivicor, la empresa biotecnológica que dirige Ayares, está a la vanguardia de la investigación en xenotrasplantes -implantación de órganos animales en seres humanos-, cuyo objetivo es resolver la escasez crónica de órganos que provoca la muerte de …

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Farm in the U.S. raises pigs for kidney transplants in humans, what's the price?

Last Updated on December 18, 2024 by Nivedita Houston, Dec 18 (IANS) US surgeons have completed the fifth gene-edited pig organ transplant for an Alabama woman who is now free from dialysis and in better health, New York University (NYU) Langone Health has revealed. The surgery marks the latest promising breakthrough in an emerging surgical […] The post US surgeons complete fifth gene-edited pig organ transplant appeared first on THIP Media.

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Fifth gene edited pig organ transplant completed by US Surgeons.

The NewsDoctors revealed Tuesday that a 53-year-old US woman successfully received a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, becoming the only person in the world currently living with a pig organ, according to her medical team.Since the November surgery, the woman has lived for weeks without dialysis, an encouraging sign for future transplants using genetically modified pig organs.Some scientists believe such procedures could save th…

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