Well, if you're a cat-lover with allergies, you might be in luck:
California-based biotech firm Allerca tested thousands of cats trying to find the tiny fraction that do not carry the glycoprotein Fel D1, which produces allergies. Those cats were then used to breed the hypoallergenic cats.
Company spokesman Steve May said it was a natural method. He said: "This is a natural gene divergence within the cat DNA - one out of 50,000 cats will have this divergence.
"So naturally divergent cats were found and then bred so there is really no modification of the gene."
While I'm not sure I'm ready to shell out almost $3000 for a cat, I know quite a few people who would! Yikes, but if you want one, you'll have to wait, list is currently quite long.
Hi, Not enought information Thanks Robor
Posted by: Robor | February 04, 2009 at 01:27 AM
I want to get some cats for pets.But my kids has an allergy in cats.
-Kaylee
Posted by: allergist | July 22, 2009 at 08:04 PM