{"id":207868,"date":"2024-02-24T16:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T16:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/first-gene-edited-meat-will-come-from-disease-proof-crispr-pigs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:38","slug":"first-gene-edited-meat-will-come-from-disease-proof-crispr-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/first-gene-edited-meat-will-come-from-disease-proof-crispr-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"First gene-edited meat will come from disease-proof CRISPR pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21151850\/SEI_192569175.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2418399 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"901\" data-credit=\"Genus PIC\" data-caption=\"Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Genus PIC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pigs that are immune to a disease estimated to cost farmers $2.7 billion a year globally look set to become the first genetically modified farm animals to be used for large-scale meat production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could very well be the first,\u201d\u00a0says Clint Nesbitt of international breeding company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genusplc.com\/about-us\/at-a-glance\/\">Genus<\/a>, which has created hundreds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/what-is-crispr\/\">CRISPR-edited<\/a> pigs in preparation for a commercial launch.<\/p>\n<p>He is confident that the animals,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2418305-first-gene-edited-meat-will-come-from-disease-proof-crispr-pigs\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome Genus PIC Pigs that are immune to a disease estimated to cost farmers $2.7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342470,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207868\/revisions\/342470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}