Monday, January 15, 2007

Egg Whites killing cancer?

Viragen, the company that brought us the cloned sheep Dolly has genetically manipulated chickens to produce cancer fighting antibodies inside of egg whites.

Even the antibodies are lab created, and due to the difficulty of manfuacturing they've found a way to grow the antibodies in chickens. It's so precise that the protien remains confined to the egg white.

More details in this article on Science Daily or Reuteurs.

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