NEW BREEDING TECHNIQUES: new use for CRISP/Cas9

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This month hot topic on New Breeding Techniques focused mainly on a controversial new study published on “Food” describing an experiment which could lead to potentially “detect GMOs derived from genome-editing techniques”.

In Germany, CDU/CSU underlined its view that “it should not be regulated as genetically modified organisms “. In Germany as well, a new experimental use of CRISPR/Cas by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology succeeded to change genetic sequence within a chromosome. CRISPR/Cas9 has also been used by a joint US-UK research effort on pigs, goats, and cattle to create sperm with genetically enhanced traits for possible offspring.

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