GENET-news articles on GE goats

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2012-03-28 | permalink

After the edible vaccine failed - the drinkable vaccine from GE goats

The so-called “pharm animal” has been genetically modified to carry a malaria vaccine in her milk, a development that has the potential to change life in impoverished countries. [...] “Our ultimate, ultimate idea is to continue the research to the point to where you actually have a herd of goats that are producing vaccines, pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals … in their milk,” A&M professor Mark Westhusin said, envisioning a day when children can “just go out and drink the milk and get vaccinated.” The process from testing to trials and approval could take 10 years.

2011-12-15 | permalink

Cloned cat deficiencies: Protein changes account for premature deaths

One of the established animal cloning techniques is somatic cell nuclear transfer which has been applied to the successful reproduction of sheep, mice, goats, cattle, dogs and cats. However, despite the apparent success, the survival rate of cloned animals is disappointingly low. The difficulties have been attributed to abnormal gene expression in cloned placentas which results in the loss of foetuses or the rapid death of newly born offspring.

2011-06-16 | permalink

Kenyans women farmers now go organic farming

Women are at the frontlines spearheading organic farming in Lari and their strategic role in society has only entrenched the practice to boost food security for their families and the entire community. Njeri engages in intensive cultivation of indigenous crop varieties that include cassava, yams, arrowroots, sweet potatoes, traditional maize and Norway beans in her two acre piece of land. She also rears indigenous goats, chicken and rabbits whose products are a prized treasure among local communities and external markets.

2011-06-14 | permalink

AgResearch (New Zealand) testing transgender GE goats for pharma-milk production

AgResearch experiments on genetically modified goats have resulted in the animals producing mostly transgender offspring, which are being milked to find out whether they carry the intended human protein. [...] Soil and Health New Zealand spokesman Steffan Browning, who recently toured the facility, said 75 per cent of the goats were females in sterile male bodies. AgResearch staff refer to them as ”goys”. AgResearch’s general manager of applied biosciences, Dr Jimmy Suttie, said the goats were transgender because of the cell line used to produce them, and had nothing to do with genetic modification.

2010-11-26 | permalink

ERMA decision making on GE animals challenged in New Zealand High Court

“The current High Court hearing beginning at 10am Wednesday 24 November is another appeal by GE Free NZ against the ERMA decision to allow sheep, goats and cows to be genetically engineered by AgResearch in potentially hundreds of thousands of combinations from a vast list of potential proteins and genes,” said Soil & Health-Organic NZ spokesperson Steffan Browning.

2010-10-21 | permalink

Here come the diarrhea-fighting transgenic goats!

And this plan from University of California, Davis researchers to fight diarrhea with milk from transgenic goats is no exception. Professor James Murray developed the technology, which has been kicking around at Davis for decades. But opposition to transgenic animals in the U.S. recently prompted Murray to ship transgenic goat semen to Brazil, where transgenic research is considered acceptable.

2010-10-20 | permalink

Pharming (Netherlands) to sell drug from GE rabbits

Pharming, based in the Netherlands, is set to be the world’s first pharmaceutical group to derive a medicine from transgenic rabbits, using the milk they produce as the basis for its drug to treat a rare genetic disease. It will be only the second medicine cleared by regulators from a transgenic animal, after GTC Biotherapeutics of the US received authorisation to produce its ATryn drug, to prevent blood clots, from the milk of genetically modified goats.

2010-08-26 | permalink

DNA from transgenic plants found in milk and animal tissue

A recent Testbiotech survey shows that DNA fragments from transgenic plants are increasingly found in animal tissue such as milk, inner organs and muscles. Most recently, in April 2010, scientists from Italy reported DNA sequences stemming from genetically engineered soy in milk from goats. These DNA fragments are presumably, entering the blood stream from the gut and then from there reaching the udder and the milk. Traces of specific DNA were also identified in kids fed with the goat’s milk.

2010-07-22 | permalink

GE goats in Russia producing human milk substitute

Russian dairy goats can produce milk containing human protein. Several cubs with a human genome in their DNA were born at a farm in the Moscow region’s Shakhovsky district as part of a joint Russian-Belarus research project. Five years have passed since scientists from Russia and Belarus started experiments to obtain goat milk containing lactoferrin. This human breast milk element protects a baby from viruses and bacteria while its own immune system develops.

2010-06-21 | permalink

GTC Biotherapeutics (USA) axes CEO and 50 staffers

Framingham-based GTC Biotherapeutics Inc. has secured $7 million in debt financing from its French partner LFB Biotechnologies, but it came with a price. [...] The company will also let go 30 full-time employees at its headquarters and 20 at the farm where it raises goats genetically modified to carry proteins that treat various medical conditions.

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