Medicine From Milk: Gene Therapy Transforms Goats Into Pharmaceutical Factories
Feb 2nd, 2008 by Axel
Daily Science Journal (Feb. 1, 2008) — University of Pennsylvania researchers have used gene therapy to reduce the time it takes to breed large animals capable of producing therapeutic proteins in their milk, such as insulin or those that fight cancer. This represents a significant milestone in drug development, as current methods involve cloning, which takes more time and generally costs more. Researchers have used gene therapy to reduce the time it takes to breed goats capable of producing th
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