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Gene-edited pigs deemed safe to eat by Health Canada

Food made from pigs engineered to be resistant to a porcine virus are as safe and nutritious to eat as pork currently on the market, Health Canada said Friday.

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Jan 24 14:03Phylogeny of waterfowl (Anseriformes) constructed using genome sequences provides insights into topological incongruences by Gang Wang and others (MBE)
Jan 24 08:00Plasmid mutation rates scale with copy number - Paula Ramiro-, et al. (PNAS)
Jan 23 14:03Evolutionary innovation within conserved gene regulatory networks underlying biomineralized skeletons in Bilateria by Yitian Bai and others (MBE)
Jan 23 14:03Molecular Complexity Constrained Early Amino Acid Recruitment into the Genetic code by Syeda Ameena Hashmi and others (GBE)
Jan 22 14:03Degradation determinants are abundant in human noncanonical proteins and minor annotated isoforms by Claudio Casola and others (GBE)

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