Replies to post #2486 on GTC Biotherapeutics (fka GTCB)

[DewDiligence]

>The science [of avian transgenics] itself is not scrambled. If you run the numbers on cost, taking in to account feed conversion, space requirements, purification schemes, all that stuff, chickens come up significantly cheaper than the goats or cows… I'm a believer in the technology, having spent many years working in the field for a now defunct competitor of VRA.<

The avian technology may work, but there must be some technical difficulties over and above those seen with mammals. If this is not the case, why is it that GTC has an approved drug and Pharming is on the verse of having an approved while no avian company is even close? T.i.a. Dew