Farm animals may soon get new features through gene editing
Story Date: 11/15/2018

 

Source: Candice Choiap, NEWS & OBSERVER, 11/15/18


Cows that can withstand hotter temperatures. Cows born without pesky horns. Pigs that never reach puberty. A company wants to alter farm animals by adding and subtracting genetic traits in a lab. It sounds like science fiction, but Recombinetics sees opportunity for its technology in the livestock industry. But first, it needs to convince regulators that gene-edited animals are no different than conventionally bred ones.

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