‘Got Milk?’ could soon mean ‘Got Insulin?’ after scientists genetically alter cow

Professor Matt Wheeler and his team genetically altered a Jersey cow in Sao Paulo, Brazil to produce human insulin in its milk.

Scientists may soon be able to make insulin from cow's milk. University of Illinois

“When you do induced lactation, you really don’t know the amount that she’s going to produce. I mean, she produces some grams per liter, but we don’t know if that’s two grams per liter, or 10 grams per liter, because you really don’t get an accurate number when you do lactation,” Wheeler said. “I mean, typically, a Holstein cow average Holstein cow in the Midwest or California would produce somewhere around 80 liters of milk a day.

Wheeler and his colleague, Paulo Monzani, spent six months working on the construct and writing published papers back in 2014.

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