The invention relates to a non-human transgenic 
mammal that is useful for the production of a 
protein of interest that may be toxic to the 
mammal. The 
mammal is characterized by the fact that it is transgenic for the production in its milk of an inactive form of the 
protein of interest, preferably recombinant 
human insulin. It is not possible to produce recombinant 
human insulin in transgenic mammals since this molecule has a certain degree of 
biological activity in the mammals and could be toxic to the mammal. Thus, the invention involves 
cloning a genetic construct comprising a sequence encoding a modified 
human insulin precursor under the control of a beta 
casein promoter in an 
expression vector. It also involves transfecting the expression 
plasmid into fetal bovine somatic cells, such as fibroblasts, and enucleating bovine oocytes by 
nuclear transfer to generate transgenic embryos. The invention gives rise to transgenic bovine that will be able to produce a modified human 
insulin precursor in their mammary glands. Afterwards, the milk of these transgenic mammals can be collected, the modified human 
insulin precursor can be converted 
in vitro into recombinant human 
insulin, and the recombinant human insulin can be purified to homogeneity as a pure 
biopharmaceutical product.