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

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Towana Looney is the longest-living recipient of a healthy and full of energy with her new kidney.

"I'm superwoman," she says, laughing about outpacing family members on long walks around New York City .

Looney 's vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality.

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs.

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