Record to remember

On Jan. 25, an Alabama woman became the first American to live more than two months with a modified animal organ. In November, Towana Looney underwent experimental transplant surgery to receive a gene-edited pig kidney. To make the pig kidney work, doctors had to genetically modify the organ to make it more compatible with the human body. For now, the cutting-edge transplant seems to be working. Looney, who donated one kidney to her mother in 1999 before her other kidney suffered damage due to a pregnancy complication, said she’s now regularly outpacing her family on walks through New York City as she recovers near her doctors: “I’m superwoman.”