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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lauran Neergaard

An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant

Pig Organ Transplant - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs.

Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients who died within two months of receiving a pig kidney or heart.

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