Last month, a woman became the third living person to receive a pig kidney. Now, her kidney function is completely normal, and she’s off dialysis. The transplant recipient — Towana Looney, 53, of Alabama — had donated a kidney to her mother back in 1999. A few years later, though, she developed high blood pressure […]
An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after undergoing the procedure at NYU Langone Health on November 25. She was discharged from the hospital on December 6, and her doctors say she […]
In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a patient with heart failure, survived almost two months with a pig heart beating in his chest, one of five people who have received pig organs as a part of an experimental procedure called xenotransplantation — the transplanting of […]
More than 7,000 species of frogs hop, climb and perch around our world—which means more than 7,000 unique frog calls permeate our air. “The diversity of frog sounds is hard to overstate,” says Mark Scherza herpetologist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. “They come in all manner of sounds, from ones that sound like […]
As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued a comprehensive report this week with a dire warning about the rapid growth of this criminal ecosystem. Many digital scams have traditionally relied on social engineering, or tricking victims into giving […]
