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.
August 1, 2023
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August 1, 2023 5:55 p.m.
Gene editing could rid sheep of problematic long tails
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...