They created pigs resistant to one of the diseases that take more pigs lives per year, it is the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus that leads to abortions, neonatal mortality and respiratory problems in pigs, there are vaccines but this virus has a large capacity of mutation.
So these vaccines only offer a partial protection against the virus, but everything began to change last week, using the now famous technique of CRISPR gene editing modified a gene called CD1663 thus getting the cells of pigs can not be infected.
Técnica de edición genética CRISPR
A news with three implications, which will save the lives of many pigs that will lose much less livestock and the era in which we can design to our liking to future generations, if also human is closer every day and is that every time we dare with more species and major modifications.
