Transgenic animals

[gribbon]

This is tracey, a transgenic sheep. She was the first sheep made with a remarkable talent: each litre of her milk contains about 35 grams of the protein human alpha-1-antitrypsin, a potential treatmet for cystic fybrosis. Although all she needs to make it is grass, every litre is worth several thousands of pounds. Like many biological molecules, alpha-1-antispyrin is too complex to be synthesised in labarotories, but has been inserted into her DNA when she was an embryo.

Apart frpm the treatments mentioned, what other disease cures could be developed this way?

[ronthepon]

Countless diseases have a potential to be treated by the use of such recombinant products.

Insulin is prepared in a similar way, except that the 'sheep' used is microscopic.

'Medical applications of genetic engineering'

[InfiniteNow]

Spider webbing through sheep's milk comes to mind.