The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after a record 2 months

An Alabama woman is thriving a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants. Of four other people given experimental pig organ transplants, none survived more than two months. Towana Looney is thrilled to feel healthy again and doctors at NYU Langone Health say her kidney is functioning normally. They hope she can return to her Gadsden, Alabama, home in another month. While there's no way to know how long the organ will last, it's another step toward clinical trials of pig organ transplants, expected sometime this year.