The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced an April 25, 2019, public webinar about "genome editing in animals, an innovative and rapidly evolving technology that offers significant public health benefits." The webinar will focus on "current scientific evidence, promising uses of this technology in animals, and the potential risks." FDA intends the webinar to help "those using genome editing to develop animals with genomic alterations," but registration is open to the public.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that agency analysts turned to next-generation sequencing to test samples collected during a Salmonella outbreak that purportedly sickened nearly 300 people from 44 states and the District of Columbia. The 2009 2010 outbreak was linked to the spice rub used on certain salamis and was ultimately traced to a single food facility. According to FDA, “The findings supported the information gathered in the field phase of the investigation and suggest an important role for this novel tool in augmenting future outbreak investigations.” See FDA Press Release, February 24, 2011.
A project involving more than 300 scientists from 25 countries has reportedly decoded the complete genome of the cow, thus providing “tantalizing clues to explain ‘the essence of bovinity.’” Published in the April 24, 2009, edition of the journal Science, the results have apparently shown that the organization of human chromosomes more closely resembles that of the domestic cow than that of mice or rats. Scientists contributing to the effort have said the new information may enable farmers to improve meat and milk production, bolster disease resistance among herds, and practice more environmentally sound husbandry. The genome also suggested that the cow species has retained a sufficient level of genetic diversity despite centuries of domestication. “And beyond that, the tools that this technology gives us allow us to manage diversity at a whole new level . . . I think the outlook is quite bright,” one study co-author was quoted…
