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A Crispr Calf Is Born. It’s Definitely a Boy – techtoday19
The calf was late. His due date, March 30, had come and gone. At first, Alison Van Eenennaam chalked it up to male calves tending to arrive a day or two on the tardy side. As the week wore on, the animal geneticist reminded herself that gene-edited embryos—li…
The calf was late. His due date, March 30, had come and gone. At first, Alison Van Eenennaam chalked it up to male calves tending to arrive a day or two on the tardy side. As the week wore on, the animal geneticist reminded herself that gene-edited embryoslike the one that had been growing inside Cow 3113 for the past nine monthscan take a little longer to signal to their surrogate mothers that theyre ready to be born. But by the following week, two false alarms at the UC Davis Beef Barn later, …
