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* Many mouse transgenics have been created to serve as models for human genetic diseases.
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* Less successful in other species, but goats have been created that secrete human [[Coagulation Factor Deficiency#Factor VIII|factor VIII]] in their milk.
 
** Cheap treatment for [[Coagulation Factor Deficiency|bleeding disorders]] with little risk of disease transfer.
 
* Area of much future development.
 
* Injection of specific gene constructs into the newly fertilized [[Oogenesis - Anatomy & Physiology|oocyte]], so that they become part of the dividing cell.  Thus they are encorporated and expressed in the individual.
 
* Constructs may be from the same or different species as the [[Oogenesis - Anatomy & Physiology|oocyte]].
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category:Reproductive Technologies]]
 
[[Category:Bullet Points]]
 

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