We can foresee cloned herds as living factories: Cows and pigs will churn out
valuable human proteins in their milk or blood, and tissues and organs for transplantation.
Lambs produced from the genetically manipulated cells produce foreign proteins; such animals may be able to manufacture large quantities of medically
valuable human proteins in their milk.
Not exact matches
Donor milk offers all the benefits of
human milk for these babies who need this
valuable source of nutrition to allow them to grow and develop without the risk of allergic reactions to formula
proteins that their already compromised gut can't handle.
Donor milk offers all the benefits of
human milk for babies who were born prematurely, who need this
valuable source of nutrition to allow them to grow and develop without the risk of allergic reactions to formula
proteins that their already compromised gut can't handle.
He is also on the Science advisory board of Nomad Biosciences in Halle, Germany, which aims to produce
human pharmaceutical and other
valuable proteins using plant viruses rather than GM plants.
Genetically modified goats are an important tool for producing
valuable therapeutic
protein [14]--[16] and studying
human diseases as ideal biomedical models [17]--[19].
Research in genomics and proteomics (the study of
proteins) is offering tremendous insights into how the
human body functions, yielding
valuable information about how specific lifestyle and environmental factors can impact health.
In 2001 the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association published a long overdue review warning people of the dangers of high
protein diets, like the Atkins, the Zone, and Sugar Busters diets.14 Unfortunately, this one statement in an otherwise
valuable report is scientifically incorrect: «Although plant
proteins form a large part of the
human diet, most are deficient in 1 or more essential amino acids and are therefore regarded as incomplete
proteins.»