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2011-06-14 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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.

2010-05-31 |

GE goats produce silk in their milk: study

With his research team, molecular biology professor Randy Lewis has successfully implanted a herd of goats with the silk-making gene proteins from a golden orb spider. [...] Lewis first began exploring the possibility of harvesting spider silk from goat’s milk in talks with now-defunct Quebec company Nexia Biotechnologies.

2010-05-03 |

New Zealand’s GE authority advises against GE animal application

State science company AgResearch [...] wanted to experiment on human and monkey cell lines and smaller species of GE laboratory animals, such as cats, dogs, pigs, guinea pigs, mice, rats, rabbits, and chickens, to develop GE cows, buffalo, sheep, pigs, goats, llamas, alpacas, deer and horses. But today’s Erma staff evaluation and review report - for a hearing to be held by Erma in June - recommended those applications be declined.

2010-04-29 |

AgResearch and ERMA (New Zealand) allow GE goats ahead of legal process

”AgResearch and ERMA are already abusing public process by beginning genetically engineered (GE) goat field trials in the open environment at Ruakura. This follows a series of applications and decisions aimed at thwarting GE Free NZ and its supporters who want applications to be assessed on a case by case basis as government legislation intended,” said Soil & Health Association of NZ spokesperson Steffan Browning.

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