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Cattle farm designed to produce human antibodies
Oct 16, 2017, 17:28 PM
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Ground has been broken for a different type of cattle farm with the goal of improving human health. S-A-B Biotherapeutics has chosen an 80-acre greenfield site in southeastern South Dakota where it will raise cloned dairy cattle, not for milk or meat, but for human antibodies to fight disease.
Eddie Sullivan is president and CEO, tells Brownfield Ag News, “It is a production farm that is specifically built for cattle to produce a human bio-pharmaceutical, so we call it ‘Pharm.’”
He says the cattle will be used for producing biopharmaceuticals that are fully human, “These animals have been designed to produce human antibodies, rather than cow antibodies.
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