Gene-edited farm animals can be less vulnerable to diseases as well as be more productive. Thus, with these attractive benefits, farmers rearing gene-edited animals can be better protected from loss of livestock as well as poverty.
Spearheading efforts to assist impoverished farmers in Africa, Professor Appolinaire Djikeng who is the director of the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health strives to provide vulnerable communities in Africa with gene-edited farm animals.
Read more about his personal journey to what inspired him on this meaningful quest as well as his gene-editing research endeavours in an interesting article published on BBC.
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