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Agricultural Research Service: Scientists Use Gene-Editing Technology to Produce First Calf Resistant to Major Viral Disease
May 11, 2023
CLAY CENTER, Nebraska, May 11 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news release:

Scientists have collaborated to produce the first gene-edited calf with resistance to bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), a virus that costs the U.S. cattle sector billions of dollars annually.

The recent study published in PNAS Nexus results from a collaboration between the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), . . .

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