Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Sheep News: Experts to Breed Sheep to Study Disease

Today's sheep news.
In addition to the sheep brain dissection tutorial in my previous post, some news about sheep bred with a brain desease:
"New Zealand researchers said Tuesday they will breed a flock of sheep in Australia that is genetically engineered to suffer Huntingdon's disease, so scientists can study the onset of the debilitating brain disease."

"We'll do very careful chemical studies to see if there is any evidence (of brain cell death in the sheep) before there are any symptoms," he said.

Will those sheep be dumber or more intellegent than mainly assumed?

Read more at My Way News.

1 comment:

Youssouf said...

Are you also genetically engineering sheep, Peanut-Bear??