ISSN:
1546-1696
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
[Auszug] Meat products are generally low in omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids, which are beneficial to human health. We describe the generation of cloned pigs that express a humanized Caenorhabditis elegans gene, fat-1, encoding an n-3 fatty acid desaturase. The hfat-1 transgenic pigs produce high levels of n-3 ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt1198
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