Man’s best friend is now his newest genetic engineering project.
Scientists in China say they are the first to use gene editing to produce customized dogs. They created a beagle with double the amount of muscle mass by deleting a gene called myostatin.
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Ref: Generation of gene-target dogs using CRISPR/Cas9 system. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology (October 2015) | DOI 10.1093/jmcb/mjv061 | PDF (Open Access)