Penn Veterinary Medicine report new strategy to create genetically modified animals

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Researchers at Penn Vet have demonstrated a new strategy for genetic modification of large animals by employing a virus that transfers genetic modifications to male reproductive cells, which passes naturally to offspring. Scientists at the Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research at Penn introduced adeno-associated virus to germline stem cells in goats and mice.

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