Cash boost for Dolly creators

17 August 2000



Cash boost for Dolly creators

By FWi staff

PPL THERAPEUTICS, which created Dolly the sheep, is to receive a 10m cash injection from German drugs and chemical group Bayer, reports The Times.

This is part of a licensing deal for a PPL drug to treat cystic fibrosis and emphysema.

PPL intends to produce a flock of 2,000 genetically modified sheep in New Zealand and extract the drug from their milk for purification in Scotland.

• Cloning ends for financial reasons, FWi, 15 August 2000
• Milk can treat human disease, FWi, 30 April 1999
• PPL produces cloned calf, FWi, 24 February 1998