{"id":82,"date":"2010-04-13T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/2010\/04\/transgenic-cock-a-doodle.html"},"modified":"2010-04-13T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:43:38","slug":"transgenic_cockadoodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/2010\/04\/transgenic_cockadoodle.html","title":{"rendered":"Transgenic cock-a-doodle"},"content":{"rendered":"

First we had the the transgenic mice<\/a> made using a technique that eliminates the need for hundreds of mice eggs or sacrificing the rodents post-experiment. In short, a deathless technique. Scientists at the National Institute of Immunology at New Delhi made the transgenic animals inserting genes in the testicular germ cells (spermatogonia) of mice through a process called in vivo<\/em> electroporation or passing mild current for a fraction of a second. The technique would help every biologist generate his own transgenic animals at low cost without the help of specialised labs.<\/p>\n

After that we now have the first ‘made in India’ transgenic chicken<\/a> developed using spermatozoa from male chicken to transfer a green fluorescent protein<\/a> gene from jellyfish. The protein worked as a marker for the scientists to see if it showed up in the transgenic animals. And it did, with an efficiency of 6%.<\/p>\n

The technology is not new (it is already in use in the US, Canada, UK and China). However, developing it in a state poultry body in Hyderabad, Indian scientists have managed to standardise transgenic chicken development at home. That is something to cheer. Also, according to the scientists, transgenic chicken can become a production house for biologically important proteins and peptides for use in medicine. This again is heartening news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First we had the the transgenic mice made using a technique that eliminates the need for hundreds of mice eggs or sacrificing the rodents post-experiment. In short, a deathless technique. Scientists at the National Institute of Immunology at New Delhi made the transgenic animals inserting genes in the testicular germ cells (spermatogonia) of mice through a process called in vivo electroporation or passing mild current for a fraction of a second. The technique would help every biologist generate his own transgenic animals at low cost without the help of specialised labs.  Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}