Gene editing could rid sheep of problematic long tails
Sheep in a field in Moscow, Idaho.
COURTESY PHOTO/WSU COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE/TED S. WARREN
Brietta Latham, a doctoral student in WSU’s School of Molecular Biosciences, stands next to a tank containing beetles and caterpillars that clean mouse skeletons used in research to develop a gene editing strategy to shorten the tails of Suffolk sheep and eliminate the need for tail docking.
PULLMAN — Longer tails have long given sheep producers across the globe problems — but a research project spearheaded by Washington State University graduate student Brietta Latham could eliminate the trait.
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