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03-27-2006, 11:58 AM
Sun Mar 26, 1:15 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - Researchers say they have created cloned piglets that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the oil that is prized as being beneficial to the heart.
<!-- SpaceID=0 timeout (ads1) -->Omega-3 is mostly found in fish, but this supply is threatened by overtrawling and clouded by worries about mercury pollution, which accumulates in fish livers.
A team led by Yifan Dai of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine transferred into foetal pig cells a gene called fat-1 that had been identified in a well-studied lab animal, a tiny worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans.
Fat-1 converts the abundant but less desirable omega-6 fatty acids into the coveted omega-3.
The nucleus of pig eggs was then removed and substituted with the nucleus from these engineered cells, following the now-classic method of animal cloning that began with Dolly the Sheep in 1996.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060326/hl_afp/healthbiotechfoodpigs_060326181525
This is wonderful . . . I guess.
Drudge was speculating on his radio show as to when there would be a human-pig hybrid. I believe such has already been attempted, but it turned out to be a miserable failure (http://www.michaelmoore.com/).
PARIS (AFP) - Researchers say they have created cloned piglets that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the oil that is prized as being beneficial to the heart.
<!-- SpaceID=0 timeout (ads1) -->Omega-3 is mostly found in fish, but this supply is threatened by overtrawling and clouded by worries about mercury pollution, which accumulates in fish livers.
A team led by Yifan Dai of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine transferred into foetal pig cells a gene called fat-1 that had been identified in a well-studied lab animal, a tiny worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans.
Fat-1 converts the abundant but less desirable omega-6 fatty acids into the coveted omega-3.
The nucleus of pig eggs was then removed and substituted with the nucleus from these engineered cells, following the now-classic method of animal cloning that began with Dolly the Sheep in 1996.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060326/hl_afp/healthbiotechfoodpigs_060326181525
This is wonderful . . . I guess.
Drudge was speculating on his radio show as to when there would be a human-pig hybrid. I believe such has already been attempted, but it turned out to be a miserable failure (http://www.michaelmoore.com/).