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How gene editing is changing the meat in our diet, from fast-growing fish to heat-tolerant cows
Do you wonder where your meat comes from? Maybe it's organic, wild harvested, or farmed. Or perhaps it was designed in a lab. Faster-growing fish, heat-tolerant cows and disease-resistant pigs are ...
Nonhuman primates (NHPs), which are closely related to humans, are useful in biomedical research, and an increasing number of NHP disease models have been reported using gene editing. However, many ...
Animal development depends on the ability to precisely regulate gene expression in time and space to specify cell types with different functions as well as the ability to maintain those cell ...
We have developed genetic technologies that could wipe out entire species of pests that are harmful to us. Columnist Michael ...
Over the past century, worldwide consumption of food-animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs has steadily grown due to increases in global population and per capita income that fuel demand for ...
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