Argentina Breeds Gene-Edited Polo Super Ponies

[MilHojas]

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-04/argentina-breeds-gene-edited-polo-super-ponies

Argentina's award-winning mare Polo Pureza will have her genes, or at least most of them, live on in five genetically edited horses designed to outrun the polo legend herself.

Scientists at Argentine biotech firm Kheiron have produced the world's first genetically edited horses using a technique called CRISPR-Cas9. The horses were born last October and November.

 

[carride]

Vichera said that this means the horses comply with current Argentine regulations and do not count as genetic doping or genetically modified organisms.
"We are not inventing anything artificial, but rather we are taking that natural sequence and introducing it into another natural horse, which is what nature does, but we do it faster and more targeted,"