{"id":34731,"date":"2017-02-21T00:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T08:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/genetically-engineered-hens-produce-birds-of-a-different-feather"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:40","slug":"genetically-engineered-hens-produce-birds-of-a-different-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/genetically-engineered-hens-produce-birds-of-a-different-feather","title":{"rendered":"Genetically-engineered hens produce birds of a different feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetically-engineered-hens-produce-birds-of-a-different-feather.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rare breeds of chickens could soon come from entirely different types of hens. The University of Edinburgh\u2019s Roslin Institute with help from US biotechnology company Recombinetics used gene editing techniques to create surrogate hens that grow up to produce eggs with all the genetic information of different breeds.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen gene editing and transfer techniques used to create <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/gmo-yeast-wine-increased-nutritional-value-hangover-reduction\/36600\/\" target=\"_blank\">better yeast<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/gene-manipulation-boost-tree-growth-rate-size\/37163\/\" target=\"_blank\">bigger trees<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/scientists-create-green-glowing-piglets\/30469\/\" target=\"_blank\">glowing pigs<\/a>, among <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/tag\/genetic-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\">numerous other examples<\/a>, but this is believed to be the first gene-edited bird to come out of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The team used a gene editing tool called TALEN (for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transcription_activator-like_effector_nuclease\" target=\"_blank\">transcription activator-like effector nucleases<\/a>), which is similar to the more widely publicized <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/tag\/crispr\/\" target=\"_blank\">CRISPR\/Cas9<\/a>, to delete part of a chicken gene called DDX4 that is related to fertility. Hens with this modification did not produce eggs but were healthy in all other ways.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/gene-editing-engineering-chicken-breed-surrogate\/48007\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/gene-editing-engineering-chicken-breed-surrogate\/48007\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare breeds of chickens could soon come from entirely different types of hens. The University of Edinburgh\u2019s Roslin Institute with help from US biotechnology company Recombinetics used gene editing techniques to create surrogate hens that grow up to produce eggs with all the genetic information of different breeds. We\u2019ve seen gene editing and transfer techniques [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48797,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731\/revisions\/48797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}