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Korean Scientists Create Pigs That Pee Medicine!
The Korea Times ^
| 5/4/2004
| Bae Keun-min
Posted on 05/04/2004 9:27:48 AM PDT by Dallas59
Milk and urine of genetically engineered pigs will be sources of high-priced medicine for thrombosis, or blood clotting, which can result in a stroke or heart attack.
With the technology, South Korea has become the world’s second nation to extract the medicine from livestock, following the United States.
The Rural Development Administration (RDA) said on Monday that it created five pigs containing human tPA (tissue plasminogen activator), a natural gene preventing thrombosis.
When blood clots in a vein or artery it hinders the supply of oxygen and nutrition to an area of the body.
The RDA said it created the pigs containing human genes by injecting human tPA into fertilized pig eggs.
The tPa injection, considered one of 10 biotechnology medicines in the world, costs some 53.5 million won per gram and whose global market is estimated to be $350 million (410.55 billion won), according to the RDA.
The U.S. succeeded in producing goats with human tPA in 1998 and has been clinically testing the medicine extracted from the goat milk.
Currently, medicine for thrombosis is mostly produced through cultivation of a hamster cell, so-called rtPA. But the pigs will result in reduced production costs by one-hundredth if the separation and refining process has improved, the RDA said.
When technology is enhanced to raise the extraction rate presently at 10 percent to 50 percent, the commercialization of the product will be started, the RDA said. It aims to increase the rate to 50 percent within this year, and further pull up to 90 percent in cooperation with medicine companies.
The invention is part of government efforts to nurture the biotechnology industry as one of the next-generation’s growth engines.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: antiislamic; genetics; healthcare; korea; medicine; oink; pee; pigs; pork
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Maybe a new weapon against Radical Islam...
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:27:48 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
That'll do, Pig, that'll do...
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:28:43 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
To: mhking
ping
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:30:12 AM PDT
by
NCjim
To: Dallas59
I don't understand the Title......
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:31:49 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ...( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: Dallas59
Turns out you can make a silk purse from a sow's ... er ... milk.
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:32:41 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Chat is my milieu)
To: Dallas59
Lemme' know when they can pee single-malt Scotch.
To: Dallas59
No wonder it tastes so bad.
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:33:34 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Dallas59
Millions of women take pills made from concentrated mare urine. premarin. :-D
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:33:39 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Dallas59
You should see what I pee after about 4 Milwaukee's Bests...
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:33:40 AM PDT
by
baltodog
(There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who can't.)
To: Dallas59
I hope our gov't steps in to protect us from these cheaper drugs.
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:33:46 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: nuconvert
The medicines gatta come out someplace...
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:34:36 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
Not even "A Spoonful Of Sugar"...
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:34:40 AM PDT
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. You have the right to be wrong.)
To: Dallas59; Xenalyte; Allegra; Bacon Man
All your pig wee are belong to us!
To: newgeezer
That pharmacy's drive-up window must be a real pisser!
To: Dallas59
ah....
LOL!
I was reading it differently. I thought they were making medicine for pigs to make them pee. LOL!!
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:36:46 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ...( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: martin_fierro
"Yes, President Hussein, this will make you feel better. Now close your eyes and say aaahhh..."
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:37:23 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
("Any moment now, unspeakable horror! Trust me!" -Tom Servo)
To: nuconvert
More coffee.............
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:37:42 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ...( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: Blood of Tyrants
No wonder the train blew up last week in DNK..they were exporting "medicine"
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posted on
05/04/2004 9:37:57 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her genes.....any volunteers?)
To: Dallas59
This is nothing new. A number of breweries have horses that pee beer.
To: Dallas59
Ah, peescription drugs. Interesting...
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