This is patent application # 20030213007 by Charles Slattery, et al and filed last year. It's called "Human milk produced by human mammary tissue implanted in non-human host animals and uses thereof." They used human breast tissue from reduction mammoplasty and placed it in a "non-human animal host." Slattery has other patents at the US Patent & Trademark Office that have been accepted on genetically engineered human milk proteins for use in infant formula. But this is taking it one step further. Of course the rationale is that our world--developed and developing nations-- has to have infant formula and so we might as well have the very best infant formula possible. (Patenting is a costly endeavor, so I wouldn't regard it as a joke) Are we living in a "Brave New World" or "Animal Farm?" Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC patent application #20030213007 "Human milk from these animals can be collected and processed for storage or fed immediately to an infant as a replacement for mother's milk. In underdeveloped countries, a few goats, cows, or sheep carrying functional human mammary cells could supply all the human milk necessary in a village, in situations where mothers could not breast feed. For developed areas, large amounts of milk will be collected from transgenic/xenogeneic cows, sterilized and packaged for bottle feeding of infants who might otherwise need to be fed with infant formula. For purposes of clarification, "human milk" as used herein, including in the claims, refers to milk produced by human mammary cells in chimeric milk-producing tissue, where human milk of the present invention may include a small amount of non-human biological material from the host animal and/or may include a small amount of non-human genetic material, or a polypeptide encoded thereby, present in a genetic construct used for transformation of human cells or host animal cells." *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html