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• MIT Technology Review: The gene-edited pig heart given to a dying patient was infected with a pig virus (4th May 2022)
  

• The Guardian: US FDA declares genetically modified pork 'safe to eat' (17th December 2020)
  

• The Counter: FDA approved its first GM pig for consumption, potentially safe for red meat allergy sufferers (15th December 2020)
  

• The National: Dolly the Sheep scientists genetically engineer elite stud animals (15th September 2020)
  

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  The Scotsman: Dolly the Sheep scientists hope DNA editing can wipe out grey squirrels
  

• Daily Mail: World's first monkey-pig hybrids are born in Chinese lab as part of ground-breaking bid to grow human organs inside animals for transplants (7th December 2019)
  

• ArsTechnica: Part cow, part… bacterium? Biotech company makes heifer of gene-editing blunder (1st September 2019)
  

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  Technology Review: Gene-edited cattle have a major screwup in their DNA (29th August 2019)
  

• Wired: Brazil's Plans for Gene-Edited Cows Got Scrapped - Here's Why (26th August 2019)
  

• The Guardian: First human-monkey chimera raises concern among scientists (3rd August 2013)
  

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  Physics-Astronomy.org: Japan Approves Groundbreaking Experiment Bringing Human-Animal Hybrids to Term (30th July 2019)
  

• Reuters: Genus shares surge on deal to market gene-edited pigs in China (16th May 2019)
  

• NZHerald: China's gene-edited monkey clones raise ethical concerns (24th January 2019)
  

• The Guardian: Scientists rewrite mice DNA so genes can be spread through species (23rd January 2019)
  

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  The Wall Street Journal: Big Tongues and Extra Vertebrae: The Unintended Consequences of Animal Gene Editing (14th December 2018)
  

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  Science: U.S. agencies clash over who should regulate genetically engineered livestock (19th April 2018)
  

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  Science: U.S. agencies clash over who should regulate genetically engineered livestock (19th April 2018)
  

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  MIT Technology Review: Farmland gene editors want cows without horns, pigs without tails, and business without regulations (12th March 2018)
  

• The Guardian: Breakthrough as scientists grow sheep embryos containing human cells (17th February 2018)
  

• The Telegraph: First monkeys cloned in historic breakthrough - could humans be next? (24th January 2018)
  

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  Farmers Guardian: Michael Gove's embrace of gene editing prompts 'Frankencow' backlash (10th January 2018)
  

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  Daily Mail: Gove says 'Frankencows' made using genetic modification could be allowed after Brexit to help farmers produce 'more valuable' animals (4th January 2018)
  

• The Telegraph: Genetically-modified animals could be sold in UK after Brexit, says Michael Gove (4th January 2018)
  

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  Quartz: Chinese scientists stuck a mouse gene into pigs to make 12 low-fat piglets (23rd October 2017)
  

• Telegraph: Questor: Animal geneticist's risks 
too great to be a cash cow (29th July 2017)
  

• PLoS: De-extinction is fake news (2nd April 2017)
  

• Stuff: Why we shouldn't bring back extinct species (1st March 2017)
  

• BBC: Reviving wooly mammoths will take more than two years (22nd February 2017)
  

• The Guardian: Undoing extinction - let's talk about the mammophant in the room (22nd February 2017)
  

• Medium.com: How mammoth cloning became fake news (19th February 2017)
  

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  Popular Science: No, the wooly mammoth won't actually be resurrected by 2019 (17th February 2017)
  

• BBC: GM hens help build 'frozen aviary' in Edinburgh (17th February 2017)
  

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  The Guardian: Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal (16th February 2017)
  

• The Scottish Farmer: Roslin researchers in ground-breaking work (12th February 2017)
  

• BBC: 'Tuberculosis-resistant' cattle developed in China (1st February 2017)
  

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  Science: Proposed U.S. biotech rules raise industry hopes and anxieties (27th January 2017)
  

• New Scientist: Shawl thing: Cashmere could soon come from gene-edited goats (21st October 2016)
  

• Cape Cod Times: Genetically modified mice seen as possible weapon in Lyme disease fight (24th July 2016)
  

• Slate: The Problem With Super-Muscly Pigs (3rd June 2016)
  

• New York Times: Open Season Is Seen in Gene Editing of Animals (26th November 2015)
  

• BioNews: Will organs from GM pigs save our bacon? (2nd November 2015)
  

• MIT Technology Review: First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in China (19th October 2015)
  

• Nature: Gene-editing record smashed in pigs (6th October 2015)
  

• Daily Record: Scientists responsible for Dolly the sheep now want to clone Edinburgh Zoo pandas (5th October 2015)
  

• LA Times: Pet micro pigs? Chinese biotech firm says it will sell very small swine (5th October 2015)
  

• Compassion in World Farming: MEPS vote to keep the EU a no clone zone (9th September 2015)
  

• MotherJones: This Scientist Might End Animal Cruelty - Unless GMO Hardliners Stop Him (July 2015)
  

• Daily Mail: What a porker! Scientists breed MUSCLY PIGS that could one day lead to super-lean bacon (30th June 2015)
  

• BBC: Will we ever eat genetically modified meat? (9th March 2015)
  

• Modern Farmer: Is the GMO Debate Aimed at Pig Testicles? (20th January 2015)
  

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  MIT Technology Review: On the Horns of the GMO Dilemma (2nd September 2014)
  

• Daily Mail: GM ANIMAL BREEDING TO BE REVIEWED (10th July 2014)
  

• Press Association: GM ANIMALS TESTS MAY AID DRUGS BID (10th July 2014)
  

• The Scientist: Designer Livestock (1st June 2014)
  

• Fox News: Genome scientist Craig Venter in deal to make humanized pig organs (6th May 2014)
  

• ECNS: GM cow a step closer to commercial pastures (15th March 2014)
  

• The Horse: AQHA Files Appeal Related to Clone Registrations (7th January 2014)
  

• UK Farming: Animal welfare groups react to EU cloning proposals (2nd January 2014)
  

• ERR News: Juuni, Cloned Transgenic Calf, Dies Suddenly (7th October 2013)
  

• The Independent: A leap into the unknown: Cloned eventing horse Tamarillo is groomed for success (19th September 2013)
  

• The Guardian: Why cheap meat costs the Earth (4th September 2013)
  

• BBC: UK animal experiments increase by 8 per cent (16th July 2013)
  

• Public Service Europe: Public given little say on GM animals in Europe (18th April 2013)
  

• Daily Mail: GM super-pigs and the new threat to our food: How genetically modified produce is becoming a disturbing reality in our lives (17th April 2013)
  

• Daily Mail: GM meat and fish set to go on sale: Scientists to press ahead despite public outrage (16th April 2013)
  

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