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Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ, and notably isn’t as sick as prior recipients who died within two months of receiving a pig kidney or heart

It's incredibly rare for living donors to develop kidney failure although those who do are given extra priority on the transplant list. But Looney couldn’t get a match because she had developed antibodies abnormally primed to attack another human kidney

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