Case Photos

Exploring BioethicsModule 6, Day 1

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Photo: Courtesy Eduardo Kac, GFP Bunny, 2000, transgenic artwork. Alba, the fluorescent rabbit

Albino rabbit with jellyfish genes.

Alba the Rabbit

Disease-Model Mice

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Mice genetically engineered to have Parkinson’s disease.

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Chicks with dyed feathers.

Dyed Feathers

Photo: Courtesy Charles A. Vacanti

Mouse with ear scaffolding surgically implanted on its back.Mouse with ear scaffolding surgically implanted on its back.

Ear Mice

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Giant panda with baby.

Giant Panda Breeding

Immunoglobulin Cows

Photo: Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY, "Cloned transchromosomic calves producing human immunoglobulin" 20(9), 889-894, copyright 2002

Four calves cloned to produce human immunoglobulin.

Photo: Courtesy USDA

This progressive brain-wasting disease causes weakness and loss of balance.

Mad-Cow-Disease Cows

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The female Anopheles mosquito can carry and transmit the malaria parasite.

Malaria Mosquitoes

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Purebred sheep dog.

Purebred Dogs

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Sheep being sheared.

Sheared Wooly Sheep

Photo: Courtesy Nexia Biotechnologies Ltd.

Genetically engineered goats with spider-silk-making genes. 

Spider-Silk Goats

Photo: Courtesy Huntsman Marine Science Centre

The three fish on top have been genetically engineered and are larger than the bottom fish of the same age.

Super-Sized Salmon

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Male calves, confined in pens, being raised for veal.Male calves, confined in pens, being raised for veal.

Veal