Last month, a woman became the third living person to receive a pig kidney. Now ... blood pressure associated with preeclampsia during pregnancy. The condition led her to develop chronic kidney ...
However, complications from a pregnancy later on led to a spike in ... access" program that involved the experimental use of pig kidneys. In Looney's case, the porcine kidney had undergone 10 ...
The 53-year-old woman who received the genetically modified animal organ is the ideal recipient to push science forward.
The 53-year-old from Alabama has now become the latest recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney -- and is currently ... after high blood pressure from a pregnancy condition damaged her remaining ...