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Towana Looney — 130 Days Off Dialysis with a Pig Kidney (2024)
Towana Looney had spent about eight years tethered to a dialysis machine, no matching human kidney in sight, when surgeons gave her one that had never belonged to a person. It came from a pig, its genome edited ten times over — and the open question was how long her body would keep it.