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Next food revolution: Will synthetic proteins eliminate animals as food?

RethinkX | 
The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound ...
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Fighting climate change with gene editing: Can we slash cows’ methane production?

Patrick Whittle | 
Preventing ruminant methane from being produced in the first place seems a sensible way to limit its damaging effects ...
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Offspring of gene-edited, hornless dairy bull born healthy, study confirms

This technology has been proposed as an alternative to dehorning, a common management practice performed to protect other cattle and ...
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Viewpoint: FDA plan to regulate gene-edited animals as drugs will thwart US food innovation

Alison Van Eenennaam | 
In the absence of sensible regulation of the breathtaking genetic variation that exists naturally in our food species, innovation will ...
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Viewpoint: We should stop blaming cows for climate change

Frank Mitloehner | 
The claim that meat production generates more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector is demonstrably false, says Frank Mitloehner ...
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Viewpoint: Lab-grown meat isn’t as ‘clean’ as you might think

Alison Van Eenennaam | 
There are many polarizing false dichotomies around this emerging technology ...
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Some animal species never get cancer. What can we learn from them?

Alyssa Shepard | 
The search for clues has led researchers to study animals who don’t develop cancer at all ...
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Using gene editing to improve animal welfare may quell fear of ‘Franken-animals’

Candice Choi | 
A company wants to alter farm animals by adding and subtracting genetic traits in a lab. It sounds like science ...
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‘Low-emission’ cows that produce less methane gas take center stage amid growing climate change fears

Jonathan Watts | 
From low-emission cows to robotic soil management, the farming industry will have to explore new approaches in the wake of ...
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Video: Inside the quest to improve farm animal welfare by tweaking their genes

Aki Ito | 
For nine nerve-racking months beginning in the summer of 2014, Dan Carlson waited for his lab experiments to be born ...
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Engineering more digestible grass could reduce livestock pastures and give us cheaper biofuels

Rebecca Nesbit | 
The problem with grass is that it has tough cellular walls that make it difficult to digest. But researchers say ...
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