…”those with cat allergies eagerly await allergen-free cats”

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ● Cover Story

Reaction from the press and the public to the announcement that Transgenic Pets will be producing the first allergen free cats has been immediate and overwhelmingly enthusiastic.  News of the company’s work to produce allergen-free cats has appeared in the New York Times, CNN, National Public Radio, BBC International, Reuters, New Science Magazine, The London Times, The Australian, local TV channels, radio stations, U.S. News and World Report, and newspapers and news stations throughout the world.

Scientists grow cells in a lab dish

Either a designer kitten or a clone is born

The same trick that lets scientists clone a cat will let them create pets with new genetic traits.  To get an allergen-free cat for example, they would simply alter a cell’s genes before cloning it

More than one way to clone a cat

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