Scary dairy

21st January 2000, 12:00am

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Scary dairy

https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/scary-dairy
BABIES could be drinking “almost human” milk from cows that have been genetically modified. Researchers at PPL Theraputics Ltd, an American subsidiary of the Edinburgh-based company, hav given human genes to three cows so they produce a protein normally found only in breast milk. But groups such as Baby Milk Action and the National Childbirth Trust are wary.


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