Researchers Can Build You a Better Horse

2021-04-20T19:16:19+00:00April 20th, 2021|Categories: Events, News|Tags: , , |

Argentine researchers have successfully edited the genes of an equine embryo utilizing a technique called CRISPR or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. This successful advancement confirms the ability to produce customized horses by manipulating embryonic DNA. CRISPR was conceptualized by Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD and Jennifer Doudna, PhD who proved in 2012 that genetic scissors [...]

Hello Dolly! Cloning Marks a Big Anniversary

2021-04-20T18:51:52+00:00February 22nd, 2017|Categories: Features, Health & Medical, Science & History|Tags: , , , , , |

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Her birth stimulated the science community to learn more about stem-cell research which has lead to many scientific and medical breakthroughs. Two decades later the birth of a cloned mammal no longer makes headline news but the technology behind [...]

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