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Facts for Digestion: The Negative Effects of an Animal-Heavy Diet

A jet plane streaks across a caerulean backdrop, expelling a stream of smoke as it goes. An SUV cruises along the road, leaving a quickly dissipating trail of carbon dioxide in its wake. A coal factory darkens the sky view, interrupting the blue patches with plumes of smog. These are the typical images which come [...]

Sheep, Goats and Pigs! Oh My: Milking Transgenic Animals for Medicine

The use of transgenic animals in the production of pharmaceuticals has opened an innovative field of study bringing medicine to the barnyard. A transgenic animal is modified to contain genetic information from another organism, and animals have been designed to produce pharmaceutical human proteins. While the prospects are promising, the future use of transgenic animals [...]

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