When covid-19 started to unfold, international locations closed companies and advised individuals to remain residence. Many thought that might be sufficient to cease the coronavirus. If we had paid extra consideration to pigs, we’d have recognized higher.
To stop their animals contracting illnesses, pig farmers make use of measures acquainted to anybody who has been avoiding covid-19, together with contact tracing, disinfecting provides, and requiring human employees to alter garments earlier than coming into a safe barn.
Now the Pig Enchancment Firm, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, is attempting one thing completely different. As a substitute of attempting to seal animals off from the atmosphere, it’s altering the pigs themselves. It’s utilizing CRISPR, the revolutionary gene scissors, to make piglets proof against lethal illnesses. Learn the complete story.
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