Wednesday 18 April 2012

Polly sheep


Polly was born in 1997 in Edinburg. It was the first clonic and transgenic cloned mammal.
This sheep was created few months after Dolly. It had a human gen implanted in a enmbryo cell.
It was named "Polly" because it type was Poll Dorset.
It was created with the purpose of use its milk, which had a human protein, as a cure for hemophilia and osteoporosis.

2 comments:

RMM said...

Did this experiment work? Is it possible to cure hemophilia and osteoporosis this way?.

Marta said...

I do not know for sure, but I read that there have been done research on transgenic sheep in which it is said that there are very few possibilities for it to work.

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