esearch is now being done with chickens to lay eggs that contain anti-cancer drugs (Cloning 1). The idea behind this is to genetically engineer hens so that their eggs contain extractable antibodies against cancer (7). The hope is to inject a gene package in to a patch of white yolk, the germinal disk, which contains the mother chickens maternal DNA. The new chicks would then take up the packaged implanted and it would trigger a gene in the oviduct (9). Then the anti cancer antibody would be exclusively in the egg white. Economically this would prove to be very affordable. Hens produce as a good number of eggs a year and each one would contain a certain dosage of the drug. If everything goes as planned the cost of drugs could be less because production of the drug would be so cheap. Just think, in the future something as simple as eating an egg would provide you or the person you love with a hope of recovery from such a life threatening disease as cancer.Parkinsons disease affects many Americans each year. It is a disorder of the central nervous system that limits the ability to move over time. There are currently drugs that provide minimal treatment which loose effectiveness after 5 to 20 years. With the use of cloning technology, people can be cured of this disease and regain there lives back. Researchers have successfully treated parkinsonism in rats by using fetal brain cells from cloned cows (Key 1). Cloning is a key to this procedure because it produces a large quantity of cells to work with. Although this has not yet been applied to humans, cloning these cells could soon prove to be a wonderful discovery in Parkinson victims. The most incredible thing I found while researching this topic was HIV and herpes virus vaccines due to cloning, which is currently in the final stages of testing. Incredibly, it is developed by cloning proteins on the surface of the viral envelope. This then triggers the immune system to ...
