Interviews & Press

In this interview, Alison Van Eenennaam describes how she built her career to encompass both science communication and research using genome-editing technologies in order to aid beef cattle production and animal welfare. Article link here.

Dr Van Eenennaam presented data complied from 195 peer-reviewed publications and gave an update on porcine reproductive and respiratory virus syndrome resistant pigs developed by Genus plc to the 100th Annual USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum. Article link here.

Alison Van Eenennaam was recently interviewed by Treena Hein for an article in Dairy Global

Dr Van Eeenennaam discusses the possibilities of the USDA regulating gene-edited animals instead of the current regulatory body, the FDA, which currently considers genome-edited animals to be novel 'drugs'.

You can find this article here plus links to parts 1-4 of this five part series.

Cosmo, the CRISPR genome-edited bull, designed to produce 75% male offspring, is featured in an article in this month's issue of the California Cattleman's magazine

Read the article here, on pages 12-13.

Dr Alison Van Eenennaam worked with researchers at Texas A&M, Washington State University, New Mexico State University, Colorado State University, USDA Agricultural Research Service and Geneseek to identify genetic markers that can be used to select beef cows with better resistance to Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD).

Read the entire article in Beef Magazine.

The Realities of Gene Editing with CRISPR I NOVA I PBS 

Dr VanEenennaam's lab has used CRISPR editing of bovine embryos to produce a live gene knock-in bull calf.  The calf, Cosmo,  has been featured in Wired, the Daily Democrat, UC Davis News,

This sunday, March 15, 12:30pm (AEDT), tune in to Landline on ABC television to hear Dr Van Eenennaam talk about genome editing in cattle and the current agricultural issues surrounding genome editing.

Alison Van Eenennaam recently attended a talk presented by Dr Vandana Shiva at the University of California Santa Cruz. In these three articles Dr Van Eenennaam does some fact checking of claims made by Dr Shiva in her “Poison-Free, Fossil-Free Food & Farming” workshop.

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Alison Van Eenennaam was recently interviewed by Molly Campbell for an article in Technology Networks about CRISPR technology, her own research and the future of gene editing livestock.

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Alison Van Eenennaam recently authored a manuscript entitled "Genomic and phenotypic analyses of six offspring of a genome-edited hornless bull" in Nature Biotechnology, published online October 7, 2019. The article was featured in UC Davis news, BBC news, Discover Magazine, Science Daily and over 100 other outlets and blogs.

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Alison Van Eenennaam was recently featured in Pacific Standard in an article  titled “America's Leading Animal Geneticist Wants to Talk to You About GMOs.”  This in-depth article spotlights the complexities of her innovative research.

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Alison Van Eenennaam was recently featured in Wired Magazine in an article  titled “A More Humane Livestock Industry, Brought to You by Crispr.”  This article details the many challenges and great potential for her area of research.

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Alison Van Eenennaam was recently featured in a Washington Post article titled "Gene-edited farm animals are coming. Will we eat them?  Cutting-edge lab techniques could improve animal breeding, but society may not be ready."
 

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