The first successful transgenic sheep in China passed the identification (12.27)

OA show ('918 '); China's first successful transgenic sheep company, Tiantian and yunyun passed the expert identification and met with the world They have human anti trypsin (maaat) gene In the near future, the mother goat's milk will become a special medicine for the treatment of lung diseases such as emphysema People with lung diseases can be cured by taking the medicine extracted from the milk or even drinking only the milk These three transgenic sheep are no different from ordinary goats in appearance He has a big body, but he is greedy and unreasonable Tian Tian is brave and likeable Yunyun is the most shy and always tries to drill behind others It is understood that they were born in June this year It is reported that in the past two years, with the support of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, national bioengineering development center and Shunyi district government, Beijing xingluyuan Biotechnology Center and China Agricultural University have made joint efforts to introduce exogenous human maaat gene into goat prokaryotic embryos by microinjection, and finally three transgenic goats have been obtained The staff said that the reason why mAAT gene was injected was mainly due to the high incidence rate of chronic emphysema in China, so it was of great value "Once the technology is breakthrough, the next step is to choose other animals or inject other genes, such as cattle for diabetes, dogs for heart disease, rabbits for stomach disease, etc." It is understood that transgenic female goats can produce milk in May next year, while the other two male goats can also produce offspring through mating, and the milk of female offspring should also contain the same therapeutic ingredients China feed industry information network GTI (author:)