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Transgenic animals are also becoming useful commercially.

On 6 February 2009, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first human biological drug produced from such an animal, a goat.

The drug, ATryn, is an anticoagulant which reduces the probability of blood clots during surgery or childbirth.

It is extracted from the goat's milk.