Designing The Prospects

Genetic manipulation (GM) also offers the prospect of healthier animals with improved resistance to diseases such as mastitis or to the ticks that can infest cattle, thus reducing the need for antibiotics and pesticides. Medicines may be produced in the milk of cows. For example, GM cows could produce milk with a clotting factor for hemophiliacs, milk containing human serum albumin for blood transfusions, or milk with a hepatitis vaccine. Several of these medicines could be produced much more efficiently than with the technologies currently used. Some of the potential changes that can be brought about in milk are listed in Table 1. 

TABLE 1 Selected reports on opportunities for designing milk 

Low-fat milk and products, caters to the health-conscious consumers 

Increased nutrition, better manufacturing properties, better product quality 

Increased protein, better processing properties, better nutrition 

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One-pot multicomponent processes have recently gained considerable and steadily increasing academic, economic, and ecological interests because they address fundamental principles of synthetic efficiency and reaction design. The prospect of extending one-pot reactions into combinatori promises many opportunities for developing novel lead structiu es for pharmaceuticals, catalysts, and even novel molecule-based materials. 

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