Cow 'for human milk'

An Argentinian laboratory announced that they had just created the world's first genetically modified cow to carry human genes and when it grew up it would give milk like human milk.

Get the milk from a cloned cow. (Photo: Corbis).

" The first cloned cow in the world was named Rosita ISA. It can produce milk containing protein in human milk ," AFP quoted a statement from the Argentine Agricultural Technology Research Institute on Thursday.

Rosita ISA was born on April 6 by surgery, because it weighs more than 45 kg, twice the weight of Jersey cows. ' When I grow up, Rosita ISA will produce milk similar to human milk ', the announcement said.

Researcher Adrian Mutto said: ' Our goal is to improve the nutritional value of dairy cows by transplanting two human genes, one is protein lactoferrin gene to provide children with antimicrobial and antiviral agents, two. lysozyme is also anti-bacterial '.