Iranian Science: Shangoul and Mangoul and What Would Sarah Palin Say…….
“Iranian researchers have announced the birth of Iran and the Middle East's first transgenic animals in the Rouyan Research Institute in Isfahan. A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene, constructed using recombinant DNA methodology, in its genome. Sheep and goats produced through this method express foreign proteins in their milk and are, therefore, considered valuable sources of protein for human therapy. Such animals are commonly produced in countries such as the US, France, the UK, Japan, Denmark, Canada, Scotland, the Netherlands, and China to extract alpha-antitrypsin, plasminogen activating factor, factor VIII, fibrinogen, lactoalbumin, lactoferrin, human albumin, collagen I and II, and monoclonal antibodies from their milk. The two Iranian transgenic kids named 'Shangoul' and 'Mangoul', the leading characters of a famous traditional children's story in Iran, were born in Rouyan Institute on Saturday morning. "The two kids are in a good health condition," said Hamid Gourabi, the head of Rouyan Research Institute. Tests revealed high concentrations of human factor IX, an anticoagulant agent used to treat patients with hemophilia B, in their blood. More time, however, is needed to study the availability of the factor in their milk. A lamb named 'Royana', a kid named 'Hanna' and two calves named 'Bonyana' and 'Tamina' were the first animals successfully cloned in the country. ......“
Okay, the Iranian mullahs have sure been busy with their scientific experiments these months. Not sure what’s up with all that hectic researching and developing. Could be part of a plot to take over the world, or at least the Middle East, or at least the Persian Gulf.
Next we’ll have the Saudis do their own research and development, developing transgenic camels. But first they’ll have to get the appropriate fatwas. Then, not to be undone, we’ll see the Jordanians developing their own transgenic asses, or better yet, a semblance of a sense of humor.
I wonder if they should work on developing transgenic potentates: we always seem to need better variations of them. No, that is not what I suggested Jordanians do.
It is not clear what the angry American Right thinks of all this tampering with God’s work by the heathen Muslims.
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