By India Edwards HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Jan. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — 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, 53, told The Associated Press as she marked day …
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