Cow Hacked With Human Dna Produces Milk Containing High Levels of Human Insulin
17th March 2024
Millions of people living with type 1 diabetes around the world don’t have reliable access to insulin. Due to their bodies’ inability to produce the hormone, they have to inject it to ensure that glucose can enter cells to produce energy.
But finding an affordable and reliable source of insulin has remained difficult in many parts of the world.
Now, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, have found a radical new way to produce the stuff: a gene-edited cow that produces human insulin in its milk.