Prescription-only Eggs?
RED HERRING | Cancer Curing Omelets?
The same research institution that cloned Dolly the Sheep has pulled off another genetic exploit. Researchers at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh have genetically engineered chickens that could one day produce medicines to fight diseases like cancer and multiple sclerosis in their eggs.Lead researcher Helen Sang and team have stated they have bred hens whose egg whites contain high level of proteins that may well yield drugs for such ailments.
The hope is that these types of breakthroughs could be developed to offer a low cost manufacturing alternative for the production of many protein-based drugs. Raising chickens is simply a lot cheaper and easier than running the industrial-scale vats—known as bioreactors—often used to brew up proteins for drugs.
Creepy. Hope they don’t accidentally get shipped to stores instead of drug companies. It’s one thing to ingest something that could potentially cure cancer - if you have it. Quite another if you don’t.