Posted on 09/09/2019 10:51:37 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Food and Drug Administration scientists who had a closer look at the genome sequence of one of the edited animals, a bull named Buri, have discovered its genome contains a stretch of bacterial DNA including a gene conferring antibiotic resistance.
The “unintended” addition of DNA from a different species occurred during the gene-editing process itself, the government says. It went undetected by the company even as it touted the animals as 100% bovine and assailed the FDA for saying the animals needed to be regulated at all.
“It was not something expected, and we didn’t look for it” says Tad Sontesgard, CEO of Acceligen, a subsidiary of Recombinetics that owns the animals. He says a more complete check “should have been done.”
“We know exactly where the gene should go, and we put it in its exact location,” Recombinetics executives told Bloomberg in 2017. “We have all the scientific data that proves that there are no off-target effects.”
Van Eenennaam says since the FDA discovery, UC Davis has incinerated three of the five males who were living at its farms. The animal who posed for the cover of Wired is pregnant and will be spared for the time being.
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Franken beef.
CC
Unintended consequences. Reminds me of Jurassic Park
Gay cattle???
Hope it’s something a good barbecue sauce’ll cover up.
No wonder it tastes like chicken
what other species did they merge it with?
bacteria
So they created a mutant cow that has genes that make it resistant to antibiotics. Cool, it can get and spread diseases easily and it’s reproducing. Awesome news. Yay mad scisnce!
We’re all going to look like Far Side cartoons.
Yes! First the ranch must always return to the factory for a new herd, and the females get heavy, very heavy.
I sure wouldn’t want to cross paths with a Pit bull with the personality of a Chihuahua.
Aah, Man Bear Cow...
They are going to fix us meat eaters one way or another. If not with propaganda, then with dangerous biological germ warfare within the source it’s self. Are they this insane? YES.
[[what other species did they merge it with?]]
Octopi- they wanted more stew beef-
lol
You’ve got issues :)
But then who doesn’t.
This could result in udder chaos.
Cowmeggedon
They go WOOOOM in stead of MOOOW?.....................
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