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Is a gene-edited animal a drug?

  • Written by Alison Van Eenennaam, Researcher, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Is a gene-edited animal a drug?Cows at the University of California, Davis beef research facility. Photo credit: Alison Van Eenennaam/ University of California, Davis, CC BY-NC-SA

We eat mutations every day. All the vegetables, grains, fruits and meat humans consume as part of their diet is jam-packed with DNA speckled with mutations and beneficial variations.

In 2017, the United...

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