You are not logged in. Please register or login.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
Re: Scientists create cow that produces 'human' milk
Genetic engineering was used to introduce the “mothers’ milk” genes into the animal before birth, according to the National Institute of Agribusiness Technology in Buenos Aires.
As an adult the cloned cow “will produce milk that is similar to humans” in what will prove “a development of great importance for the nutrition of infants”, it said in a statement.
“The cloned cow, named Rosita ISA, is the first bovine born in the world that incorporates two human genes that contain the proteins present in human milk,” the statement said.
In April scientists in China published details of research showing that they had created GM Holstein dairy cows which produced milk containing proteins found in human breast milk.
But the Argentine team say the Chinese only introduced one human gene, whereas their research involved two genes meaning the milk will more closely resemble that of humans.
The article is a week old but my friend sent it to me so I thought I would post it here too
a cow that produces "human milk" what next? 
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne … -milk.html
Re: Scientists create cow that produces 'human' milk
We'll be seeing much more of this type of thing in the coming years so people are gonna have to get used to it. As far as milk goes, I rarely drink it. Only use milk when I eat cereal or sometimes have a glass of chocolate milk. I can live without both.
Re: Scientists create cow that produces 'human' milk
We'll be seeing much more of this type of thing in the coming years so people are gonna have to get used to it. As far as milk goes, I rarely drink it. Only use milk when I eat cereal or sometimes have a glass of chocolate milk. I can live without both.
I don't drink either one. As long as the don't start using animals to make orange juice...I'm good 
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: Scientists create cow that produces 'human' milk
Meh...make me a human woman that produces cow's milk and I'll be interested 
Re: Scientists create cow that produces 'human' milk
We'll be seeing much more of this type of thing in the coming years so people are gonna have to get used to it. As far as milk goes, I rarely drink it. Only use milk when I eat cereal or sometimes have a glass of chocolate milk. I can live without both.
Yeah shit is going that way.
If we needed cows milk with that gene in it natural selection (read God if you like) would have provided for it. At this point in time, we don't need it. I see this as pointless, at best idiotic at worst.
karma