Cloned Cows Can Make Own Cheese

TimesOnline ^ | 1-27-03 | Anthony Browne

[dogbyte12]

IT WILL horrify the French, put Daisy the cow out of a job, and bring the price of cheese crashing down. Scientists in New Zealand have cloned a herd of cows designed to produce genetically enhanced milk that almost turns itself into cheese.

Cows have previously been genetically modified to produce medicinal proteins in their milk, but researchers have now created nine cows engineered to produce milk that can be turned into cheese far faster and more easily.

The team led by Gotz Laible at AgResearch in Hamilton, New Zealand, engineered cow cells to overproduce milk proteins called caseins. This family of proteins provides the primary components of cheese. Kappa-casein increases heat stability of cheese. Beta-casein improves processing by reducing clotting time and expelling more whey, the watery residue that has to be removed when making cheese. It also helps to determine calcium levels.

Increasing the levels of these two proteins could produce big savings for cheese makers, scientists say.

[GladesGuru]

Is there a reason the dancing cow is wearing a skirt of bananas? I've heard of the top babana but based on the position in the image these must be either midddle 'nanas or even lower.

Did someone sell out to a Banana Republic? Is there any influence peddlin' goin' on? When are the Dems going to run that cow for office?

Just curious?

[billorites]

"I think my ex-wife could do that."

I believe I've milked your ex-wife.

Horsey woman.

Thick through the shoulders.

That her?

[sweetliberty]

Cheese thread ping! Can the moose be far behind? ;-)

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Has to be A. Muenster, the other 3 are all bleu cheeses.

[demosthenes the elder]

I dunno, have you heard about the goats that are producing orb-weaver spider silk proteins in their milk, for use in industrial, medical/surgical, and military applications?

[Squawk 8888]

This is a cheese thread, after all.

No cheese threads here, just cheese strings.

[mikrofon]

That's great news -- now instead of releasing environmentally dangerous methane into the air, these geneticaly enhanced cows can instead cut the cheese...

[Rebelbase]

Was she a cow?

[Rebelbase]

I'm glad you posted that. I needed to adjust the odor card in my computer, its working just fine now, thanks.

[Rebelbase]

"NO, it's not. This is like making a fine wine in 3 days. It ruins it somehow"

I'll be really worried when they can produce aged cheese.

[aruanan]

Cloned Cows Can Make Own Cheese

Yes, but all cows can cut their own cheese.