Innocan Exercises Option to Enter into a Research and License Agreement with Ramot the Commercial company of the Tel Aviv University streetinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from streetinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Herzliya, Israel and Calgary, Alberta (Newsfile Corp. - August 18, 2021) - Innocan Pharma Corporation (CSE: INNO) (FSE: IP4) (OTCQB: INNPF) (the "Company" or "Innocan"), is pleased to announce that,
[Source Photo: galitskaya/iStock]
advertisement
advertisement
It’s a particularly gruesome part of the chicken industry: When chicks are born at hatcheries, the males are immediately thrown in grinders and “live-shredded” to death, or killed by suffocation or gassing. Since male chicks will never grow up to lay eggs, and because roosters are too small to be used for meat, the industry has no use for them. Billions are killed each year, after hatcheries have invested the money and energy needed to incubate each egg.
advertisement
[Photo: Omri Adar]That’s changing as new technologies to identify the sex of chicken eggs come to market, making it possible to literally count your chickens before they hatch. One solution, from a startup based in Israel, uses the gene-editing technology CRISPR to place a tiny biomarker on the male chromosome. When the egg goes through a scanner, the biomarker glows, and it’s possible to separate the egg out for uses in other industries (like