Scientists take a page from super cows and engineer double-bacon hogs

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By Nathanael JohnsonJun 30, 2015, 6:46 pm37 pts
We’ve had super cows for a long time — hulking dreadnoughts of rippling muscle, created when breeders happened to cross animals lacking the gene to regulate muscle growth. Now scientists have shown that they can reproduce this condition, called double muscling, using simple gene editing, rather than…

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