Ants, like humans, are into career specialization, livestock herding, engineering, climate control, in-flight sex, and war; for them, as for us, free will may or may not be an illusion.
In this paper we discuss the use of genetic engineering in livestock production.
The work is the first successful genetic engineering of livestock to resist infection, opening the door for similar strategies for other diseases.
We propose in this paper that ecological engineering and livestock population control must be taken as measures for ecological restoration and biodiversity protection.
As an illustration, they analyse a scenario of 'ecosystem engineering' where livestock production would not be for human consumption, but for predator consumption, thus increasing biological diversity in the ecosystems.
The addition of human milk components with intrinsic antimicrobial activity and positive charge to livestock milk by genetic engineering has the potential to benefit animal health, as well as food safety and production.
Isolation of ESC lines from domesticated large animals and ungulate mammals has the potential to enable the precise genetic engineering of livestock for improved production traits, disease resistance and biopharming.
Genome editing is developing rapidly as a tool for targeted gene knockout in experimental animals, genome engineering of livestock and plants, and clinical gene therapy.
The high efficiency of Cas9-mediated genome editing in pigs demonstrated here, together with the versatile functionality of the CRISPR/Cas system such as multiplexed genome editing and epigenetic modification, opens up unlimited possibilities of genome engineering in livestock for applications in agriculture and biomedicine.
Industries include slaughtering, livestock marketing, dairy processing, light engineering, and the manufacture of ceramics, textiles, and furniture.
Barnaul has a research institute of agriculture and livestock husbandry and institutes for engineering, teacher training, and medicine.
