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Engineered Hens Lay Cancer-Fighting Eggs
celardore writes "Hens that lay eggs containing cancer-fighting proteins have been developed in Scotland. While not themselves cancer-antagonistic, the proteins can be used to create drugs that have cancer-fighting potential. The hens are, in effect, factories for cancer drugs. It is still unknown whether the resulting drugs would work in practice, and clinical trials are 5 years off. This research was conducted by the Roslin Institute, the ones responsible responsible for Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal."
Wrong. There had to be a modified egg that hatched the modified chicken.
The egg really did come first.
The protein or the cancer?
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The hens are, in effect, factories for cancer drugs. It is still unknown whether the resulting drugs would work in practice, and clinical trials are 5 years off.
Clinical trials are 5 years off? What are they, chicken?
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Laying an egg is a job where no engineer has gone before. :P
...welcome our cancer curing chicken overlords.
(I'm surprised no one else brought this up yet :)
and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs."
What?
A chicken and an egg were lying in bed, the chicken sitting back, leaning against the headboard with a big grin on his face.
The egg, looking quite angry and disappointed, rolled out of bed and said, "well I guess we answered that question!".
I'm still waiting for them to cross chickens with octopii ... everyone gets a drumstick.
Chickens are better than cows. The furst words of the article summary:
Somehow, I don't see cow eggs as being able to compete, either in quantity, or in ease of access, to hen eggs :-)