Skip to main content
animalbiotech
UC Davis Logo
UC Davis Logo
Site Logo
animalbiotech
  • Contact Us
  • Blog
  • Videos
  • Research Projects
  • Marker-Assisted Selection
  • Publications
  • Make a Gift
Main navigation (extended config)
  • Home
  • Lab
    • People
      • Alison Van Eenennaam
      • Graduate Students
      • Research Staff
      • Former Lab Members
    • Research Projects
    • Publications
    • Photos
  • Genomics
    • Cattle
    • Pig
    • Poultry
    • Sheep
    • Aquatic
    • Human
    • Other Species
  • Biotechnology
    • Cloning
    • Concerns
    • DNA Companies
    • Transgenics
      • Aquatic
      • Cattle
      • Pig
      • Poultry
      • Sheep and Goats
      • Uses
  • Outreach
    • Presentations
    • Videos
    • Biotechnology & Genomics in the News
    • Outreach Publications
      • Fact Sheets
      • General Information Sheets
  • Presentations
    • 2025
    • 2024
    • 2023
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013
    • 2012
    • 2011
    • 2010
    • 2009
    • 2008
    • 2007
  • News
  • MAS
  • eBEEF
Breadcrumb
  1. Home
  2. Latest News
  3. A bull calf that will sire 75% boys
Alison Van Eenennaam with Cosmo the genome edited bull calf
Alison Van Eenennaam with Cosmo the genome edited bull calf

A bull calf that will sire 75% boys

  • by Josephine Frances Trott
  • July 31, 2020

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, Newswise, Interesting Engineering, SciTech Daily, Feedstuffs, Technology Times Pakistan, National Observer, Ag Daily, TechToday 19, The Counter, Capital Press and Grist.

Primary Category

Interviews & Press

Categories

  • Honors & Awards
  • Interviews & Press
  • Presentations

Related Articles

Photo of Alison Van Eenennaam and Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dr Van Eenennaam reflects on her 24 year career at UC Davis as a Cooperative Extension Specialist in Animal Biotechnology

June 10, 2026
photo of Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam

Dr Van Eenennaam is interviewed about new gene-edited virus-resistant pigs

December 12, 2025
Dr Alison Van Eenennaam

Dr Van Eenennaam talks to Nature Methods about vectors used in genetic engineering

February 21, 2025
Alison and gene-edited Cosmo

A profile of Dr Alison Van Eenennaam by The Scientist

June 14, 2024
Photograph of Dr Alison Van Eenennaam

Dr Van Eenennaam talks to the National Hog Farmer about global research in livestock gene editing

February 21, 2024
UC Davis footer logo
  • Questions or comments?
  • Privacy & Accessibility
  • Principles of Community
  • University of California
  • Sitemap
  • Last update: December 4, 2020

Copyright © The Regents of the University of California, Davis campus. All rights reserved.

This site is officially grown in SiteFarm.