To protect chickens from bird flu, researchers try to CRISPR in immunity
In a new study, scientists sought to engineer bird flu resistance in chickens.
LONDON — In this case, it was neither the chicken nor the egg that came first. Rather, it started with some specially engineered cells in a lab.
The chicken cells had had their genomes edited, not to correct a faulty mutation, but in an effort to blunt the bird flu virus. The chickens that were bred from those cells were designed to be resistant to the infection.
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