Edinburgh-based PPL Therapeutics hopes that clinical trials of its
emphysema drug, &agr;-1-antitrypsin, which is made by transgenic sheep, will
get under way later this year. So Animals With Novel Genes (Cambridge
University Press, £30/$49.95, ISBN 0 521 43256 1) is a timely
review af beneficial uses far transgenic mammals, birds, insects and fish. But
please, editor Norman Maclean, can we stop calling animals “living test
tubes”?
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