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  • World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo

    08/30/2025 11:01:01 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 11 replies
    Reuters ^ | August 30, 2025 10:00 AM UTC | Leila Miller
    BUENOS AIRES - They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires province. But these five 10-month-olds are the world’s first genetically edited horses: cloned copies of a prize-winning horse named Polo Pureza, or Polo Purity, with a single DNA sequence inserted using CRISPR technology with the aim of producing explosive speed. Kheiron Biotech, the Argentine company that created the horses, says gene-editing has the potential to revolutionize horse breeding. While cloning creates a genetically identical copy, CRISPR functions as...