Edinburgh-based company PPL Therapeutics hope its emphysema drug
alpha–1-antitrypsin, which is made in sheep, will start undergoing clinical
trials later this year. So Animals With Novel Genes (Cambridge University Press,
£30/$49.95, ISBN 0 521 43256 1) is a timely review of the beneficial uses
of transgenic mammals, birds, insects and fish. But please, editor Norman
Maclean, can we stop calling animals “living test tubes”?
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