When covid-19 started to unfold, nations closed companies and informed folks to remain house. Many thought that might be sufficient to cease the coronavirus. If we had paid extra consideration to pigs, we’d have identified higher.

To stop their animals contracting illnesses, pig farmers make use of measures acquainted to anybody who has been avoiding covid-19, together with contact tracing, disinfecting provides, and requiring human staff to vary garments earlier than getting into a safe barn.

Now the Pig Enchancment Firm, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, is attempting one thing totally different. As an alternative of attempting to seal animals off from the setting, it’s altering the pigs themselves. It’s utilizing CRISPR, the revolutionary gene scissors, to make piglets resistant to lethal illnesses. Learn the complete story.

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