{"id":114886,"date":"2020-10-22T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/gene-edited-livestock-surrogate-sires-successfully-made-fertile"},"modified":"2020-10-22T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:44:08","slug":"gene-edited-livestock-surrogate-sires-successfully-made-fertile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/gene-edited-livestock-surrogate-sires-successfully-made-fertile","title":{"rendered":"Gene-edited livestock \u2018surrogate sires\u2019 successfully made fertile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-edited-livestock-surrogate-sires-successfully-made-fertile2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have created pigs, goats and cattle that can serve as viable \u201csurrogate sires,\u201d male animals that produce sperm carrying only the genetic traits of donor animals.<\/p>\n<p>The advance, published in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> on Sept. 14, could speed the spread of desirable characteristics in livestock and improve food production for a growing global population. It also would enable breeders in remote regions better access to genetic material of elite animals from other parts of the world and allow more precision breeding in animals such as goats where using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/artificial+insemination\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial insemination<\/a> is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this technology, we can get better dissemination of desirable traits and improve the efficiency of food production. This can have a major impact on addressing food insecurity around the world,\u201d said Jon Oatley, a reproductive biologist with WSU\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine. \u201cIf we can tackle this genetically, then that means less water, less feed and fewer antibiotics we have to put into the animals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have created pigs, goats and cattle that can serve as viable \u201csurrogate sires,\u201d male animals that produce sperm carrying only the genetic traits of donor animals. The advance, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Sept. 14, could speed the spread of desirable characteristics in livestock [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}