Gene-edited pigs are resistant to billion dollar virus, study finds
Story Date: 6/22/2018

 

Source: EUREKA ALERT, 6/20/18


Scientists have produced pigs that can resist one of the world's most costly animal diseases, by changing their genetic code.
Tests with the virus - called Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome, or PRRS - found the pigs do not become infected at all.

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