Law360, New York (August 15, 2014, 10:17 AM EDT) -- This story began on a Scottish hillside near Edinburgh where researchers Keith Campbell and Ian Wilmut were grappling with a problem limiting the usefulness of methods to tailor the characteristics and traits of transgenic mammals. To illustrate this problem, say one wanted to overproduce a useful hormone in goat's milk because to do so would be easier and cheaper than any other method. Even if one could successfully insert a gene encoding the hormone of interest into the genome of a goat, there was no way of telling at that time if the genetic instructions would actually "take" and lead to an overproduction of the desired hormone in some body fluid of the goat, much less its milk....
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