Animal Husbandry Academy obtains genetically modified sheep with different coat colors
??? Xinhua News Agency photo, Urumqi, June 7, 2016** The Animal Husbandry Academy used genome editing technology to obtain genetically modified sheep with different coat colors for the first time in the world. This is a photo taken on June 3 of 5 genetically modified fine-wool sheep lambs born in March 2016 at the experimental base of the Biotechnology Research Institute of the **Animal Husbandry Academy. On June 7, the **Animal Husbandry Academy held a press conference to introduce the genome editing technology of the research group led by researcher Liu Mingjun of the institute's Biotechnology Research Institute. Liu Mingjun said that this technological breakthrough in using genome editing technology to change the coat color of large animals provides a precise, efficient and rapid new means for future livestock breeding. The five gene-modified lambs showed different coat color types, and the lambs' growth and development were normal. Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Qiao took the photo
??? Xinhua News Agency photo, Urumqi, June 7, 2016** The Animal Husbandry Academy used genome editing technology to obtain genetically modified sheep with different coat colors for the first time in the world. This is a genetically modified fine-wool sheep lamb about two months after birth (photographed on April 27). On June 7, the **Animal Husbandry Academy held a press conference to introduce the genome editing technology of the research group led by researcher Liu Mingjun of the institute's Biotechnology Research Institute. Liu Mingjun said that this technological breakthrough in using genome editing technology to change the coat color of large animals provides a precise, efficient and rapid new means for future livestock breeding. The five gene-modified lambs showed different coat color types, and the lambs' growth and development were normal. Xinhua News Agency issued the photo
??? Xinhua News Agency photo, Urumqi, June 7, 2016** The Animal Husbandry Academy used genome editing technology to obtain genetically modified sheep with different coat colors for the first time in the world. Researcher Liu Mingjun (second from right), Dr. Zhang Zhifeng (first from left), Associate Researcher Zhang Xuemei (second from left) and Assistant Researcher Han Bing (first from right) of the Biotechnology Research Institute of the **Animal Husbandry Academy with 5 genetically modified fine-wool sheep lambs of different coat colors obtained using genome editing technology (photographed on June 3). On June 7, the **Animal Husbandry Academy held a press conference to introduce the genome editing technology of the research group led by researcher Liu Mingjun of the institute's Biotechnology Research Institute. Liu Mingjun said that this technological breakthrough in using genome editing technology to change the coat color of large animals provides a precise, efficient and rapid new means for future livestock breeding. The five gene-modified lambs showed different coat color types, and the lambs' growth and development were normal. Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Qiao took the photo
Xinhua News Agency, Urumqi, June 7 (Reporters Zhang Hongchi, Shen Qiao) The lambs that should have been born white are now different from birth: two have pure black coats with white spots on top of their heads; two have black-and-white coats like giant panda fur; and one has a mixed brown-and-white coat.
Their "exceptional talents" come from the genome editing technology of the research group led by researcher Liu Mingjun of the Biotechnology Research Institute of the **Animal Husbandry Academy.
On the 7th, the **Animal Husbandry Academy held a press conference here. President Wang Lijian said: "This is the first time in the world that fine-wool sheep with different coat color patterns have been obtained using genome editing technology (also known as genome genetic modification technology), and it is a major breakthrough made by **animal husbandry science and technology workers in applied research on cutting-edge technologies in the international life sciences field."