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Title: Muscle Gene Edit Creates Buff Beagles
Author: Tina Hesman Saey
Narrator: Mark Moran
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-04-15
Publisher: Science News
Genres: Science & Technology, Magazine & Radio

Summary:
Bully whippets may have competition in doggy body-building contests. Two beagles in China have been genetically engineered to be extra buff. The small hounds are the latest addition to a menagerie of gene-edited animals that also includes pigs and monkeys. Researchers in China decided to mutate a muscle gene in beagles to test whether a powerful gene-editing technology called CRISPR/Cas9 will work in dogs. Mutations in the gene, called myostatin, give bully whippets and Belgian Blue cattle their bulky muscles, but are not known to cause health problems.

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