Gene-editing of livestock animals is a growing area of research in India with significant applications targeted at enhanced meat yield and milk production, disease resistance and resilience to impacts ...

Adding myostatin. By the early 2000s, carcass weights seemed to be plateauing at 17.5-18kg. So, in 2005, two Texel rams carrying the GDF8 gene were introduced into the Romney flock.

The edited sheep contains no foreign DNA, distinguishing it from transgenic organisms and paving the way for regulatory approval under India's evolving biotech policy framework ...

Noel states that: “The presence of the Myostatin gene, sometimes known as ‘Double muscling’ gene, has always had a place in the commercial suckler herd, however caution should be taken.

The edited sheep contains no foreign DNA, distinguishing it from transgenic organisms and paving the way for regulatory approval under India's evolving biotech policy framework.

Sheep must be homozygous (have two copies) of the allele to demonstrate resistance. ... MV will soon be added to the £27 routine test bundle with myostatin, parentage and scrapie and so on.

Researchers at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology used a gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 to tweak a muscle-regulating gene called myostatin in the lamb during its ...

Researchers at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology have produced India's first gene-edited sheep, marking a historic milestone in the field of animal biotechnology.