What are the major functions of mammary glands to produce proteins?
We take advantage of the features of a mammary gland. It is a source of rich liquid proteins as well as fats and energy for the offspring of any species, whether it’s human, goat, cow, or any mammalian species. What we’re doing here is using a bit of, if you want to think of it this way, DNA programming to get the mammary glands simply to produce a protein of therapeutic interest to man, in addition to all the other proteins it might make, and then we take the resulting fluid and you don’t really think of it as milk so much. Usually when you use the term “milk” people think of a food source. The milk is really a production media for the protein and we then take all the milk parts away from the milk to get to this therapeutic protein. And what we’re doing here, by taking advantage of the mammary gland’s ability to make proteins, is what enables this technology to get to very large production volumes in relatively low-costs ways. And secondly, because of the mammary gland’s ability to ma
