Title: Genetic engineering via transgenics and cloning: prospects, value and environmental impact

Authors: Karl M. Ebert, Lawrence J. Wangh

Addresses: TranXenoGen, USA. ' Brandeis University, USA

Abstract: Transgenic manipulation of living plants and animals is one of the new technologies that will be employed in the 21st Century to improve the efficiency of food production, as well as the synthesis of medically and socially valuable biological products. While the technologies for creating transgenic plants and animals are now in the early testing stage, it is already possible to imagine creation of seed plants that produce important proteins, new breeds of pigs and fish that grow faster, are leaner, and require less grain and goats or cows that produce human insulin for treating diabetes, or antibodies for fighting cancer. The list of such products is already very long and is expected to grow rapidly as the technology for producing transgenic plants and animals improves.

Keywords: genetic engineering; transgenics; cloning; environmental impact; transgenic manipulation; transgenic plants; transgenic animals.

DOI: 10.1504/IER.1999.053833

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 1999 Vol.1 No.1, pp.1 - 22

Published online: 13 May 2013 *

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