A selection of news we missed during August. Reuters reports on the controversy surrounding horses edited by Kheiron Biotech to enhance their muscles. In Argentina, veterinary reproductive technologies are cutting-edge, and the use of cloning in horse breeding is accepted. Still, for now, genetically edited animals are not allowed to compete in polo.

Meanwhile, Guangzhou Medical University has tested the feasibility of lung xenotransplantation in a brain-dead person. The work was published in Nature Medicine, but the journalistic report in Science is also worth reading. Until now, interspecies transplants from edited pigs to humans have involved kidneys, the heart, and (in one poorly known case) the liver.

Finally, don’t miss Nature‘s news feature on “sexless” seeds. Editing has made it possible to achieve this potentially revolutionary milestone for global agriculture, and Australia is launching the first field trial with sorghum capable of reproducing asexually, by apomixis.