GTC Biotherapeutics (fka GTCB)

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the omelet of drugs is getting additional PR --

January 18, 07 -
>Researchers are also developing transgenic mammals, such as goats that produce therapeutic proteins in their milk, as potential alternatives to bacterial bioreactors. Indeed, one company, GTC Biotherapeutics, based in Framingham, MA, has a drug for treating a hereditary blood-clot disorder on the market in Europe that's produced in the milk of transgenic goats.

However, Sang says, drug-laying hens will likely have advantages over transgenic mammals "in terms of cost and speed of production. They breed faster because they have a shorter reproductive cycle." There is also some evidence, says Jervis, that proteins made in chicken eggs may be more effective than those made in goats' milk because the way chickens add sugars to them may more closely resemble the way humans do. "There are so many protein drugs coming along," says Sang. "The pharmaceutical industry needs choices."<

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18078/

Looks scrambled to me - comments???

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