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2007-12-27 |

News on GE animals

Researchers from Russia and Belarus working under the federal state program have for the first time in the world got two transgenic kids, each cell of which contains the lactoferrin (human breast milk protein) coding gene. In several years, a flock of transgenic she-goats will be produced from them, the milk of which will make basis for a new generation of highly efficient and biologically safe drugs.

2007-09-24 |

New strategy to create genetically-modified animals developed

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have demonstrated the potential of a new strategy for genetic modification of large animals. The method employs a harmless gene therapy virus that transfers a genetic modification to male reproductive cells, which is then passed naturally on to offspring. Ina Dobrinski, associate professor and director of the Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research at Penn Vet, and her colleagues introduced adeno-associated virus, AAV, to male germline stem cells in both goats and mice.

2007-07-30 |

Without U.S. rules, biotech food lacks investors

The three pigs, all now living in experimental farmyards, are among the genetically engineered animals whose meat might one day turn up on American dinner plates. Bioengineers have also developed salmon that grow to market weight in about half the typical time, disease-resistant cows and catfish needing fewer antibiotics, and goats whose milk might help ward off infections in children who drink it. Only now, though, do federal officials seem to be getting serious about drafting rules that would determine whether and how such meat, milk and filets can safely enter the nation’s food supply.

2007-07-27 |

Nerve gas antidote made by GE goats

Scientists have genetically modified goats to make a drug in their milk that protects against deadly nerve agents such as sarin and VX. These poisons are known collectively as organophosphates - a group of chemicals that also includes some pesticides used in farming. So far, the GM goats have made almost 15kg of a drug which binds to and neutralises organophosphate molecules.

2007-02-14 |

Pharm animals crank out drugs

With its tranquil ponds and rolling fields, the GTC Biotherapeutics farm in Charlton, Massachusetts, looks like a typical pastoral retreat. But its 1,400 goats don’t produce any butter or cheese. Instead, the animals are sophisticated drug incubators, with millions of dollars of potential profit accumulating in their udders each day.

2007-02-10 |

Plea to halt cultivation of Bt hybrids in India

The Deccan Development Society (DDS) has asked the Government to declare a moratorium on the cultivation of Bt hybrids until a comprehensive study is undertaken on the possible impact of Bt hybrids on environment, livestock and human health. In a statement, M. Abdul Qayuum and S. Kiran, DDS scientists, said the deleterious affects of Bt cotton on livestock have resurfaced in Warangal district. In Gammadavelli village, symptoms appeared more on the goats compared to sheep. Bloating of stomach, mucous flow from nostrils, reddish urination were some of the symptoms. Besides, some shepherds also had bloating of stomach and skin allergies in the neck region, the release said.

2007-01-09 |

The next considerations about cloned food are the ethical ones

The end of the year is often the time for prophecies of doom and, at the end of 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration helped those prophecies along by releasing a long-awaited report on cloned food. The document, which was itself peer-reviewed, reviewed hundreds of studies and concluded that meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and goats "are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals." This echoes an earlier report from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

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