At the Roslin Institute of the University of Edinburgh – the same research centre that created Dolly the sheep – scientists have used gene editing to achieve a new advance in animal breeding. With a precise CRISPR tweak, they have produced pigs that are immune to a highly contagious and often deadly viral disease: classical swine fever.
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A proposal from the Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment points the way out of the GM regulatory impasse for most CRISPR crops in Europe. Rather than trying to clarify ambiguous definitions, the EU could simply amend Annex B1, that is the list of technologies that are excluded from regulation by the directive on GMOs (2001/18/EC). Continue reading
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