'Blessed': US woman sees second chance in life after pig kidney transplant

By Issam Ahmed

'Blessed': US woman sees second chance in life after pig kidney transplant

Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 only for the remaining one to fail several years later due to pregnancy complications.

Now, the 53-year-old from Alabama has become the latest recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney -- and is currently the only living person in the world with an animal organ transplant, New York's NYU Langone hospital announced Tuesday.

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