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Ommm non nom.... My social conditioning tells me this is very wrong.
(and I checked the date on it first)
So do their udders look, err, human?
being that you're in Yorkshire:
"pull the 'udder one!"
Milk is for babies
Yeah right. Read down a bit...
Writing in the scientific peer-reviewed journal Public Library of Science One, the researchers said they were able to create cows that produced milk containing a human protein called lysozyme,
They got the cows to produce a specific protein. Not the same thing as making human milk is it?
Aaargh - I hate "science" stories that don't provide a link to the actual paper they are talking about.
[url= http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017593 ]Yang B, Wang J, Tang B, Liu Y, Guo C, et al. 2011 "Characterization of Bioactive Recombinant Human Lysozyme Expressed in Milk of Cloned Transgenic Cattle". PLoS ONE 6(3): e17593. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017593 [/url]
Sensational as this headline is, the truth is a little more mundane.
They have four cows that have been genetically modified so the lysozyme enzyme in their milk is similar to human lysozyme that appears in human breast milk.