January 15, 2007

Anti Cancer Drugs to be produced from eggs laid by genetically modified Chickens.

This seems promising unless the genetic modifications get out of hand.

posted by kamus 17 years ago
  • Some people are very clever.
  • Chemomelets!
  • Why don't they just genetically modify the chickens to be super smart? That way one of them might come up with a cure for cancer.
  • My one problem with this would be the same problem I have with egg factories to begin with, and that's the fact that the chickens will be housed in cages no bigger than they are. Seems wrong to ask them to create proteins that will save our lives, and not make theirs as nice as possible. But that wouldn't be profitable, I assume.
  • Too bad they can't cut out the middleman (well, middlebird) and just genetically modify US to not have cancer.
  • I can turn dog hair into a tv. And just to return to the topic, haven't eggs been used in the past as incubators for the mass production of vaccines?
  • In the past, and still today for many vaccines. A chicken egg is a good place to raise a crop of vaccine viruses. Macroscopic, so easily manipulated. Histologically remote from human tissue, so less likely to incubate something that'll reproduce further in the human body.
  • Which came first: 1. Chicken 2. Egg 3. Virus vaccine 4. Cancer cure 5. Rooster 6. Hen 7. Simultaneous 8. Professor Harry Griffin
  • that's the fact that the chickens will be housed in cages no bigger than they are. Is it really so hard to buy free-range?
  • Free-range eatin' eggs, not hard atall. Free-range cander drug eggs? Prob'ly.
  • I do buy free range. But what TUMmy said. And I do think about it even when I get a vaccine that may have been grown in eggs.