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Article on transgenic livestock

LONDON, England- (24 July 1997)- Move over Dolly, and make room for Polly, the first sheep cloned by nuclear transfer technology bearing a human gene. Investors hope the lamb will make them a mint, but more importantly, the arrival of Polly could be good news for hemophiliacs and others who rely on expensive protein therapy of their diseases.

Transgenic animal lesson from Texas Education Agency 2013

transgenic expression of spider silk in milk

A team of Indian biologists has demonstrated that a key component of the water buffalo genome can be manipulated to produce foreign proteins in the buffalo's milk (J. Biotechnol. 2015, DOI:10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.02.001). The findings suggest the possibility of modifying the genetic material of water buffalo-that is, creating transgenic buffalo-to produce protein drugs, says team member Subeer S. Majumdar, of the National Institute of Immunology, in New Delhi.