Daisy, The Cloned Cow Can Kill Allergy

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Currently 2% of newborns are lactose intolerant
After analyzing learned that milk has more nutrients than regular cow's milk

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (02/OCT/2012.) - More than 15 years after Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal on the planet, New Zealand scientists have created genetically Daisy Cow hopes to produce the first milk test allergies.

Daisy, bred in the laboratories of the state AgResearch, is hoping for that two or three percent of babies in their first year of life can not tolerate milk, according to a study to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and advances the company.

"We have succeeded in greatly reducing the amount of beta-lactoglobulin (BLG), a milk protein that is not present in human milk and may cause allergic reactions," said Stefan Wagner, one of the researchers at AgResearch .

Furthermore, Daisy milk contains a large amount of casein, other proteins that are present in cow's milk, which makes it more nutritious than that produced by the common cattle.

The laboratories have analyzed milk Daisy to corroborate hipoalérgenas features and will be many years before coming to industrial production and marketing of this product in New Zealand, a country known for its strict regulation on food safety.

So do not look favorably on all the animal specimen, who was born without a tail and draft hypoallergenic milk is considered by Steffan Browning, New Zealand Green Party lawmaker as a danger to the reputation of your country as a producer of natural and safe food.

The New Zealand organic products generated revenue of more than A $ 828 million annually (eight thousand pesos approximately 230 million), mainly due to exports.

To the objections of environmentalists has joined GE Free New Zealand, an organization that opposes genetic engineering, as it believes that the experiment eliminates a protein necessary for the development of the cow and humans and also represents an act of animal cruelty.

The president of GE Free New Zealand, Claire Bleakley said TVNZ chain protein that "is essential for healthy digestion, immune system function and formation of healthy bone tissues healthy, teeth and muscle development."

AgResearch Bleakley recalled that employed more than twelve years to clone a cow at the expense of the deaths of hundreds of embryos for experiments, forcing the organization to suspend its program of cloning because only ten percent of the animals survived their tests.

Creating Daisy was the result of a long process that included work with cell cultures and mice using cloned to produce a type of sheep BLG protein in the milk of rodents by genetic inhibition technique called RNA interference.

In this process were inoculated two microRNA (small ribonucleic acid molecules) mice to lower levels of said protein allergen in 96%.

In the next stage, a cow genetically scientists created using the same technique and hormonally induced to produce milk.

Generally start producing cows milk from 20 months of age, but scientists Daisy incited to do before for purposes of study, although their numbers were small.

Also investigate why no tail, if it is a rare congenital disease that affects cows or due to other reasons.

In the future, scientists will investigate if Daisy Zealanders, eleven months and currently living on a farm in the country to develop with their peers, can produce greater quantities of milk hypoallergenic.

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