Surgeons implant new kind of engineered pig kidney

USA TODAY - For more and to sign up click here Ashleigh Fields Surgeons successfully completed the fifth gene-edited pig organ transplant for an Alabama woman who needed a new kidney. Towana Looney, 53, underwent the procedure after eight years of dialysis. “It’s like a new beginning,” Looney, 53, told the Associated Press. Right away, “the energy I had was amazing. To have a working kidney — and to feel it — is…