Talk:ATryn

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The embryos' "genome" was altered by injecting them with antithrombin? What nonsense is this? I went to the reference and it did indeed say that, but clearly it was in error—if the experiments had rehabilitated Lamarck; I think we would have heard more about it.

There's a certain current within WP that is too mechanical about the use of sources. There needs to be some use of the critical faculty, when the source obviously has it wrong. --Trovatore (talk) 19:53, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see this has now been corrected by BorgQueen. Good work. --Trovatore (talk) 20:04, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Does it look okay now? Thanks for your sharp eyes. (I obviously need some coffee.) --BorgQueen (talk) 20:06, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks fine. Sorry about the rant.  I hadn't had my coffee either. --Trovatore (talk) 20:55, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

why goats?
I haven't been able to find out why they use goats instead of cows or something —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pelirojopajaro (talk • contribs) 23:32, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Might have something to do with the fact that it's being produced via milk and goats milk has different properties to cows'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.16.34.166 (talk) 14:13, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think transgenic cattle were hard to make until recently (see ) so the technology wasn't there at the time. There is also a balance to strike between making large amounts of the protein in large animals like cows, against having animals that breed and reproduce more quickly, like goats. A general review on the topic is here. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:30, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Also, in the same vein, goats are much smaller than cows, therefore they need less space to house them and less resources to feed them; much like the use of drosophila in labs, but drosophila can't be milked... yet... -- MacAddct1984 (talk &#149; contribs) 17:26, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

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