“There have been a lot of letdowns, but I don’t give up,” Towana Looney says.
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After years on transplant wait list, Alabama grandmother receives kidney from gene-edited pig
Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine.

