Goats With Transplanted Human Gene Bear First Kids In Belarus

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The first two kids have been born into an experimental goat herd with a transplanted human gene, Alexander Budevich, head of the BelRosTransgen Belarussian-Russian project and staff member of the Belarussian Cattle Breeding Research Institute, told Interfax on Monday.
"The kids are well, they do not show any signs of ailment or abnormal development. Yet scientists must still verify that the kids are transgenic," he said.

Russian genetics experts will come to the Belarussian institute on Tuesday to take samples of the kid's ear skin for a gene test. The test will show whether the kids are transgenic, he said.

"The probability of the appearance of transgenic animals is very small. Only two or three transgenic kids may be born to 100 goats to which human genes were transplanted," he said.