Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other ...

An Alabama woman who is the only living recipient of a pig organ transplant became the longest living person with a ...

Towana Looney is the fifth patient to be given a gene-edited pig organ since 2022, none of whom survived two months ...

The process of using animals as donors for human organs is known as xenotransplantation ... person in the world walking around with a pig organ inside them that’s functioning.” ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs ... worked for 61 days inside a deceased man whose body ...

The process involves genetically altering pigs so their organs are more human-like. At the moment ... which managed to have a functioning pig kidney inside it for 61 days. Towana was successfully ...

The process of using animals as donors for human organs is known as xenotransplantation ... you would have no idea that she’s the only person in the world walking around with a pig organ inside them ...