A Company in Los Angeles has announced that they are to make allergy free cats by genetically modifying them. They are already taking $250 deposits for a kitten. The small print says that the deposit is non-refundable even if a kitten is never provided. They hope to be producing 200,000 kittens by 2007. Each kitten will be $3500. That's $700,000,000 a year.
They will be eliminating, by RNA interference, the FEL D 1 protein that is secreted into the fur which causes the allergy. This has never been done before. Even if it works this may not stop you being allergy free around this type of cat since they produce many other allergens and you may be allergic to one of these.
Once again I say What is the point of this type of work when there are many more important things to do in life.
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