… bird flu. Upticks in cases tend to occur during the spring and autumn migration of wild birds that transmit the virus, and last week the United …
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Scientists Edited Chicken’s Genes to Resist Bird Flu. It Kind of Worked – The Messenger
Those changes “can be passed down through all the gene-edited animals to the offspring to protect the poultry and reduce risks to farmers and wild …
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Chickens made resistant to bird flu with CRISPR gene editing | New Scientist
Modifying a protein in chicken cells can help the birds resist infection by influenza viruses, but further testing is needed before this approach …
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To protect chickens from bird flu, researchers try to CRISPR in immunity – STAT News
In a study, chicken cells had had their genomes edited, not to correct a faulty mutation, but in an effort to blunt the bird flu virus.
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Solar Storms Can Hinder Bird Migration – Scientific American
… birds such as warblers, thrushes and sparrows. “We really didn’t know what we would find at all, because at face value, [linking] space weather and …
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How gene editing could help curb the spread of bird flu – MIT Technology Review
Researchers used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to alter the DNA of 10 chickens to resist the bird flu virus and then exposed all of them to a low dose …
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Bird flu: Scientists see gene editing hope for immune chickens – BBC News
Researchers have developed gene-edited chickens that are partially resistant to bird flu. Although the birds are not completely immune, …
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World’s first flu-resistant chickens could pave way for gene-edited UK poultry – The Guardian
… wild birds.” The research focused on a gene, ANP32, that makes a protein the flu virus hijacks to replicate itself. Barclay said: “It occurred to …
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Scientists use gene editing to create chickens resistant to bird flu – Sky News
… bird flu. The breakthrough suggests flocks could be protected from the strain of the disease that has spread rapidly around the world in wild birds.
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Gene editing offers chickens some protection against bird flu -study – Reuters
Scientists in Britain have found they can partially protect chickens from bird flu infections by editing their genes, signaling a new potential …
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