Susan Heavey (Reuters) wrote:The drug, GTC Biotherapeutics Inc's anti-clotting therapy Atryn, is an intravenous therapy made using a human protein gathered from female goats specially bred to produce it in their milk. <snip> GTC's goats are bred using cells injected with human DNA. The company has a herd of about 200 at its Massachusetts facility. The company says the heard is otherwise normal and healthy.
so i wonder what kind of mutant these goats would turn into in ATB? would they gain some special physical form from the splicing (like the spider goats), or would they just continue to produce the protien in their milk, resulting in their milk, once processed, being viable as a drug?
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glitterboy2098 wrote:so i wonder what kind of mutant these goats would turn into in ATB? would they gain some special physical form from the splicing (like the spider goats), or would they just continue to produce the protien in their milk, resulting in their milk, once processed, being viable as a drug?
I've been working on a Panacea Goat. The goat would have gained the ability to see what's wrong with someone, psychically (Cell Reader, Psychic Diagnosis, and/or See Aura) or by sampling their blood, and then produce a cure in their milk. However, so that these goats abilities wouldn't be abused, the goats would be very rare and maybe a marginal chance that the person being cured would be allergic to the goats milk (cure is worse than the disease).
In the mid-21st century, pharmaceutical scientists had genetically engineering goats to produce a variety of drug proteins in their milk to treat various diseases and illnesses. In the years following the Crash, mutagens in the environment altered the goats so that they gained the ability to detect what disease or illness was affecting others and produce the appropriate cure in their milk.
Panacea Goats look like any other goat and tend to live among normal non-mutant goat herds. The only way to tell them apart is with a genetic test or a Cell Reader. Due to this these mutant goats are considered very rare.
It is rumored that the milk of these goats will grant an extraordinary long life, maybe even immortality, to anyone who drinks it regularly and thus these goats are a highly sought commodity.
Size Level: 6 (Medium) Size: 4' long, 4' 6" feet tall Weight: 75 pounds Hit Points: 20 (2D6+10) SDC: 12 Psionics: See Aura, Cell Reader, Telepathic Transmission Attacks Per Melee: 2 Damage: Horns 2D4; Hooves 2D4 (front only) Mutant Animal Abilities: Panacea Milk (special), Immune to Disease & Illness Average Life Span: 10 years Habitat: Various Notes: Panacea Goats have greater than animal intelligence, and may communicate to others with their telepathic transmission in short and simple words (yes, no, leave, sick, danger, etc.). Only females produce the Panacea Milk.
Panacea Milk (Cure Disease/Illness 85%): To produce this cure-all, the goat must first sample a bit of the patient's blood. This is usually done by the goat biting the sick being and drawing blood (1 hit point). This would normally heals within fifteen minutes. It will take 8-48 hours for the goat to produce the cure in their milk, depending on the severity and nature of the disease/illness, during which time the goat must consume a large amount of grass. There is an infinitesimal chance that someone might be allergic to the proteins in the goats milk, in which case hypersensitivity reactions, including anaphylaxis, are possible. Fortunately, the goat will know this from their Cell Reader ability and will not produce any milk for them.
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Only thing i would change is the damage of the diagnostic bite. I think SDC damage is reasonable (it's not that much blood is it?) Anyway, that's just a nitpick: definitely something i can use.
