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Gene editing may aid cattle heat stress abatement

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Acceligen will use gene editing to improve health and welfare of agricultural animals

As seen in Ag Funder

10 Predictions for the Future of Gene editing in Livestock

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Future bright for genetic progress in beef industry

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Gene editing allows for polled dairy genetics without the production drag

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Recombinetics, Semex form alliance to improve cattle well-being

As seen in Feedstuffs

Can gene editing solve the castration issue

As seen in Agrivision

Who is leading the charge for new precision breeding tools?

As seen on Agri Pulse

An end to surgical castration being developed

As seen in Farm Journal’s Pork

Gene editing: what can it deliver for agriculture?

As seen in Future Farming

Seeking greener pastures: gene editing and animal welfare

As seen in The Athens Science Observer

Regulators holding fistful of livestock genetics magic at the gate

As seen in Agripulse

Breeding ‘safer’ hornless Holstein cows

As seen in Dairy Global

Cows become hornless after gene editing making countryside safer

As seen in The Science Times

Gene-editing options

As seen in The Cattle Business Weekly

GMOs can address animal welfare, environmental, ethical challenges

As seen in the Genetic Literacy Project

Gene-edited cattle produce no horns

As seen in Science Magazine

Open season is seen in gene editing of animals

As seen in New York Times

Precision Crossbreeding of African Dairy Production Systems

Acceligen, a Recombinetics Inc. company, today announced that it received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop bovine genetics optimized with traits desirable to smallholder dairy farmers.

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Antibiotic Resistance in Farm Animals is Rising Fast 

Acceligen and Kheiron-Biotech Announce Joint Projects Focused on Precision Breeding

As seen on Recombinetics.com

Eliminating dehorning in dairy cattle

As seen in Farm and Dairy

Dairy genetics firm team up to deliver elite hornless cows

As seen in AgriPulse

Alliance aims to edit genes for polled dairy cattle

As seen in Farmtario.

Americana: feeding the world

As seen in The Daily Herald

Piglet castration may be avoided by gene editing

As seen in Agrivision

How gene editing will change agriculture

As seen in Successful Farming

Results of gene editing could be seen in livestock industry in a few years

As seen in Queensland Country Life

Cows with horns may soon be a relic of farming’s painful past

As seen in Business Insider

Non-browning apples and hornless cows

As seen in The National Review

Hornless cows created to make farming safer

As seen in the Telegraph

Egg-free surrogate chickens produced in bid to save rare breeds

As seen in Phys.Org

The top 10 science stories of 2016

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Gene editing for Agtech picks up pace

As seen in Pontifax AgTech

Polled (hornless) occurs naturally but now can be achieved by genetic modification

As seen in Dairy Crossbreeding.

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Dr. Tad Sonstegard, CEO of Acceligen, talks Precision Breeding technology and how gene-editing can reboot genetic progress in sub saharan Africa. 

There is a disparity between milk yield in sub saharan Africa and the US. In comparison, African dairy cattle produce as little as 1/6-1/8 the amount of milk.

The Alliance to End Surgical Castration of Swine Announces Precision Breeding Successes

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Gene-edited animal plan to relieve poverty in Africa

As seen in BBC

Genetic progress focuses on health, animal welfare

As seen in The Progressive Farmer

The end of livestock dehorning? Gene-edited hornless dairy cattle move towards commercialization

As seen in the Genetic Literacy Project

Precision breeding partnership will eliminate need to dehorn cows

As seen in Ag Daily

Gene editing research could end pig castration

As seen in Successful Farming

Americans are going to castrate piglets genetically

As seen in Pig Business (Netherlands)

FFAR awards $500,000 grant to improve swine health and well-being

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This genetics company is editing horns off milk cows

As seen in Bloomberg Businessweek

What is agriculture biotechnology?

As seen in AgFunder News

Is the ultimate beef herd on our doorstep?

As seen in Farm Online National

From corn to cattle, gene editing is about to supercharge agriculture

As seen in Digital Trends

4 ways this revolutionary gene-editing tool could change the world

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Rare chickens brought back from the brink of extinction by Edinburgh University

As seen in The Telegraph

These foods aren’t genetically modified but they are “edited”

As seen in The New York Times