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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Julia Musto

Alabama woman is recovering well after receiving a pig kidney, doctors say

An Alabama woman is doing well after she received a pig kidney transplant last month, doctors have said.

Towana Looney is the fifth American to be given a gene-edited pig organ. The experimental procedure was done at New York’s NYU Langone Transplant Institute last month.

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