Hm.. Old but funny article.. Swallowing pig sperm: A miracle cure?
A group of Canadian geneticists believes that pig semen may be the best building block for human growth hormones.
Will semen spurting out of a hog’s penis provide the next wonder drug for humanity?
Lusty sows might regard swine spunk as sexy, and Nebraska pig-ranchers accept it as a procreating necessity, but ordinary humans undoubtedly view oinker jism as a repulsive fluid they’d rather not think about.
Pig sperm doesn’t bore Canadian researchers, however. Frances Pothier and his Department of Animal Sciences colleagues at Quebec’s Laval University are presently attempting to transform hog wads into an array of growth hormone (GH) pharmaceutical products, notes the November issue of Nature Biotechnology.
“We will introduce a new human gene into the pig embryo at the one-cell stage, with micro-manipulation,” Pothier explained to Salon Urge in a phone interview. “We can introduce any genes that we want: genes that combat hemophilia, genetic lung disease and cystic fibrosis, for example. We can also introduce genes that act as ‘red blood cell boosters’ — this product will help patients recover from chemotherapy.”
By Hank Hyena
