Virus resistant animals to protect people against new outbreaks | Wendy Barclay
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2019-02-26

Influenza pandemics come from wild birds, and are passed to humans via farm animals. Could we prevent future pandemics in humans by breeding farm animals to be resistant to influenza? At Imperial College, Wendy Barclay is exploring the potential to do this by editing genes using CRISPR.

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