Question

GM animals; example, pharming and ethical issues

Accepted Answer

swine fever-resistent pigs (immune to african swine fever)
Pharming (GE animals to form human medicines)

creating animal models (addition/removal of genes so animals develop certain diseases to model for development of new therapies)
creating human proteins (human gene placed in GM of fertalised animal egg (e.g cow) with a promoter sequence so gene only expressed in mammary glands, fertallised transgenic female embryo returns to mother, and once born, matures and gives birth, it forms milk (with desired human protein), bacteria used sometimes, but cant form all proteins made by eukaryotes

Ethical issues

using GE animals to model human disease
putting human genes in animals
welfare compramised while forming GE animals

Animals Human Gm Pharming Ethical Issues Swine Form