Wednesday, 2. June 2004
Topic: SCIENCE - on June 2, 2004 at 2:43:00 AM CEST
Japanese develop first cow immune to Mad Cow disease
Kirin Brewery Company, as part of its joint project with Hematech LLC to develop a cow that can produce human antibodies, has succeeded in producing a cow fetus in which neither bovine antibody gene1 nor the gene for the prions2 that are the cause of BSE are present. The process developed utilizes cells derived from bovine embryos that continuously destroy the bovine genes for antibodies and prions.
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