Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: Another group, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc., announced that it had combined a human nucleus with a cow egg and activated it to the four cell stage.Considerable skepticism, however, has greeted that report.See Eliot Marshall, Claim of Human-Cow Embryo Greeted with Skepticism, 282 SCI.1390, 1390-91 (1998).5. The Wilmut team in Scotland appears driven by the desire to "pharm" domestic animals through transgenic modification to produce drugs or other valuable substances in their milk.See Elizabeth Pennisi, After Dolly, a Pharming Frenzy, 279 Sa. 646, 646 (1998).The work with mice in Hawaii seems aimed at getting identical generations of mice to improve the reliability of laboratory research, and to extend the reach of transgenic mice.See Wakayama et al., supra note 2, at 369.The Japanese work may be directed at reproducing "exact copies of animals that are superb producers of milk or meat."Kolata, supra note 3, at AS.
Source: PubMed
Author: J A Robertson
Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W141464801