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Nature 424, 604 (7 August 2003) | doi:10.1038/424604a

Piglets add some colour to transgenic story

Nicola Nosengo

Researchers in Italy and Australia are to introduce 18 transgenic piglets to a meeting in California next week, in an attempt to convince sceptics that their disputed transgenic methodology does indeed work. They say that the technique could be a cheap and efficient way to produce animals expressing multiple foreign genes.