How freaking cool is the field of genetics? Some scientists in Zurich have figured out how to insert mammalian genes in… moss. Really, moss! What does this mean for us? Well, now we can get the moss to grow our mammalian proteins for us. Therapeutic proteins (such as insulin) that until now have been very expensive to culture due to the fact that they could only previously be made mostly by mammalian cells.
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