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Happy Monday and hope you had a happy 4th of July! For that reason, it was a slow news week. But some good ones nonetheless as we see trends continue of leveraging blockchain for traceability and the debate on gene edited animal regulation. The USDA released their Technology Transfer Report citing 320 new inventions from the organization in 2018 along with 471 licenses, 120 patent applications, and 67 patents granted.
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⛓ Nestlé launches open blockchain pilot to track milk
Nestlé's previous blockchain initiative with IBM focused on product traceability within the supply chain, verifying trade certifications and secure data entry and access.
🦓 Apple, Google, and Facebook Are Raiding Animal Research Labs
Neuroscientists studying birds, mice, and fish are landing seven-figure salaries to help advance artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, and more. To track Jaguar’s brain activity, researchers have genetically altered him so his neurons emit fluorescent light when they fire.
🐄 FDA resists livestock lobby’s push on GE animals
FDA is defending its regulatory turf in a battle over genetically engineered animals amid the farm lobby’s push for USDA to take control of the burgeoning technology. At stake is the oversight of innovations like pigs that are resistant to certain diseases or dairy cows that are more productive. To date, FDA has only approved one biotech animal after two decades of review: AquAdvantage salmon, which has been genetically modified to grow faster.
🐓 Gene-edited chicken cells may stop the spread of bird flu
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Imperial College London suggest it's possible to prevent the spread of bird virus in chickens by taking out a small part of the animal's DNA within lab-grown cells using CRISPR gene-editing technology.
🌱 What Mark Twain can teach us about the weed industry
In this case, the smart money isn’t in producing a commodity, but in developing and licensing technologies and services everyone will need to get that commodity to customers.
The real cash crop here isn’t weed, in other words; it’s data and intellectual property—the tech foundation of the future global cannabis industry.
🐷 Beyond Meat's Asia Ally Eyes Profits Selling Fake Pork to China
After its success distributing Beyond Meat Inc.’s mock beef patties in Asia, start-up Green Monday has a new food challenge: convince Chinese consumers to try its lab-grown meatless pork.
👩🏽🔬 USDA report highlights new research innovations
In an important development, ARS scientists in Orient Point, N.Y., investigated the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing as a potentially more robust and efficient system to produce live recombinant African swine fever (ASF) viruses. Compared with traditional genetic engineering techniques, the CRISPR-Cas9 system resulted in the successful development of a recombinant ASF virus in record time. These results demonstrate the potential advantage of using CRISPR-Cas9 over traditional methods and should significantly improve the ability to develop a first-generation modified live ASF vaccine.
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