Transgenic chickens help UK's Oxford Biomedica fly
Date: 23-Jun-04
Country: UK
Biomedica said it and U.S. partner Viragen (VRA.A: Quote, Profile, Research) had managed to generate transgenic chicken lines with an efficiency of the order of 10 to 100-fold higher than any previously published method.
Several biotech groups are working on new ways to produce antibodies and other complex protein drugs in milk, eggs or farm crops, as a cheap alternative to making them from cell cultures in stainless steel vats.