What Valerie McClain predicted is coming true.  A component of human breast
milk has been inserted into goats
to enable goat milk to carry the same level of human lysozyme.
Judy Ritchie  

http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=69657&m=1NIE804&c=ymhgzhkpfeeb
tvm

Transgenic goat milk could prevent diarrhea in developing world
By staff reporter

04/08/2006 - Milk produced by transgenic goats is seen to shore up
protective intestinal bacteria against illness, thanks to the antibacterial
action of an enzyme found in human breast milk; if the findings hold true
for humans it could help prevent death from diarrheal illness in the
developing world.

In a new study to be published in the August issue of Transgenic Research
(reference unavailable at time of publication), researchers from UC Davis
report positive results in milk from goats bred to carry the gene for human
lysozyme on the intestinal health of young goats and pigs. 
They hope that their findings, said to "underscore the potential for using
biotechnology to improve the healthfulness of the milk of dairy animals by
introducing the beneficial properties of human milk into dairy animals,"
could one day be used to protect children against diarrheal illness.   

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