The production of transgenic livestock has the opportunity to significantly improve human health, enhance nutrition, protect the environment, increase animal welfare, and decrease livestock disease.

"If, as in our experiments, the genetic change also reduces the offspring's ability to survive, a transgenic animal could bring a wild population to extinction in 40 generations." Extinction results ...

Transgenic animals, such as cows producing human therapeutic proteins in their milk, have also been created. Transgenic animals serve as valuable models for studying human diseases and testing new ...