An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of slowing down.
“I’m superwoman,” Towana Looney told The Associated Press, laughing about outpacing family members on long walks around New York City as she continues her recovery. “It’s a new take on life.
"I’m superwoman," she told the outlet. "It’s a new take on life." Looney is the fifth patient to be given a gene-edited pig organ since 2022 — and the third to receive a kidney — per The ...