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An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it.
"Though the outcome is not what anyone wanted, I know a lot was learned from my 130 days with a pig kidney ‒ and that ... hoping for a living person to donate one of their kidneys or for someone ...
(CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived ...
An Alabama woman living with a ... to damage the new kidney, he said. In May of last year, Lisa Pisano, the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, also had to have her kidney ...
Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...