From the article: While the team said that this was the first instance of gene insertion into cattle using a single nicking Cas9, it was far from the first application of genome editing to livestock, or even cows. In May 2016, researchers led by Minnesota-based gene editing firm Recombinetics reported [...]
Recombinetics, a St. Paul based company that does gene-editing of livestock for human therapeutics and food production, announced the expansion of its Scientific Advisory Board, including: Perry Hackett, company co-founder, University of Minnesota; Jef Boeke, NYU Langone Medical Center; Dana Carroll, University of Utah; George Church, Harvard Medical School; Ina [...]
