Pig science to be used in disease fight thescottishfarmer.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thescottishfarmer.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
University of Edinburgh: Agreement targets disease-resistant pigs indiaeducationdiary.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiaeducationdiary.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The PRRS virus kills hundreds of thousands of pigs worldwide every year, but scientists at the Roslin Institute famed for cloning Dolly the Sheep (inset) 25 years ago believe they could eradicate the disease through gene editing GENE edited meat will be “on our supermarket shelves and on our dinner plates” in three to five years say scientists who have struck a deal to produce the world’s first pigs resistant to a devastating respiratory virus. Researchers at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh set out the plan 25 years on from their seminal cloning breakthrough with the birth of Dolly the Sheep.
Genetically-engineered pigs to be reared to fight disease bbc.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bbc.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Meat from gene-edited super pigs could hit British supermarket shelves within five years dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.