My family bred polled Holsteins for 30 years, working away in fits and starts carefully crossing the limited number of polled families in the breed. In the last few years […] Read more
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Editorial: Dealing with disruptive technology
Partnership aims to edit genes for polled dairy cattle
This will be one of the first applications for gene editing in food animals, so companies involved expect regulatory approval to take years
Semex has formed a partnership with Recombinetics, a genetic engineering firm, to use genetic ‘editing’ to produce animals that have no horns. Semex, a farmer-owned company and Canada’s largest dairy […] Read more