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Biotech / Medical : Biotransplant(BTRN)
BTRN 35.28+0.5%Nov 5 4:00 PM EST
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To: Arthur Radley who wrote (1217)1/24/2002 12:12:18 PM
From: j g cordes   of 1475
 
A little off subject but relevant.. "Japanese Scientists Breed Pigs with Spinach Genes

Thursday January 24 3:37 AM ET

TOKYO (Reuters) - Meat lovers may one day worry a little bit less about their fat intake thanks to Japanese scientists who say they have produced healthier pork by breeding pigs implanted with spinach genes.

``This is the world's first success in breeding mammals with plant genes,'' research team leader Akira Iritani, a professor of genetic engineering at Kinki University in western Japan, told Reuters Thursday.

Iritani said his group had put spinach genes into the fertilized egg of a pig and planted it in the mother.

No health problems had been seen in the genetically engineered pigs, the first of which was born three-and-a-half years ago, he said.

Iritani said their meat would be ``more healthy'' than normal pork although it was too early to say whether it could be considered as healthy as spinach.
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