Chickens could provide cheap method of producing drugs, research suggests
The animals were genetically modified to produce human proteins in their eggs and researchers found they worked as well as existing methods.
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Chickens could soon offer a cost-effective way of producing high quality drugs to use on patients, new research has suggested.
The animals were genetically modified to produce human proteins in their eggs with the hope they could be used for further scientific research.
However, the study carried out at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute found the drugs which were developed worked just as well as ones produced using existing methods.
