Genetically modified eggs can be used in medicine
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Last Update: 2002-05-14
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: Recently, U.S researchers have found that transgenic chickens that can produce useful drugs in eggs will become competitors for sheep that can produce human protein in goat milk, goats that can extract spider web protein in milk and other transgenic animals According to the team from the University of Georgia and bird gene company, the eggs of transgenic chickens can produce quantitative enzymes, that is to say, they can be used as living bioreactors to produce proteins needed in human drugs The researchers report that a new transgenic White Leghorn chicken can lay 330 eggs a year, each containing about 6.5g of protein Zxz researchers, led by Alex Harvey of bird genetics, genetically engineered chickens with a virus to produce a "marker" enzyme, β - lactamase, in their eggs ZxZ
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