Gene-edited chicken cell proteins can effectively prevent avian influenza.

Researchers at the University of London and the University of Edinburgh have found that genetic editing techniques to modify chicken cell proteins can effectively stop the spread of the bird flu virus in chickens, and have found new ways to stop large-scale outbreaks of the virus at its source.
chicken cells contain a special protein called ANP32A.
research team, led by Professor Wendy Buckley, head of the Department of Influenzaology at Imperial College London, found that when chickens are infected with the bird flu virus, the virus hijacks the protein to help it replicate itself.
researchers edited the DNA of chicken cells and removed a small fragment of the protein responsible for producing ANP32A, removing the carrier on which the bird flu virus was used to replicate itself.
researchers found that chickens that had been genetically edited were not infected by the avian influenza virus.
the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge have previously bred genetically modified chickens that do not transmit to other chickens after contracting bird flu.
and, unlike genetically modified chickens, the new method does not involve introducing new genetic material into the dna of chickens, but rather a small cut.
researchers say the next step will be to try to produce chickens with the gene that change and are resistant to avian influenza virus infection.
Barclay explained that chickens are the main accumulation of influenza virus esage and the main cause of the pandemic. "In this study, we have determined that the chicken can be minimally genetically modified to stop the spread of the virus, which could prevent the next influenza pandemic at the source,"
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" gene editing technology is merely a tool, born without evil or goodness, and it depends on who is used and where it is used.
should see that gene editing technology can play a huge role in medicine, agriculture and animal husbandry, biology, health and epidemic prevention and other fields for the benefit of mankind.
in order to prevent gene editing technology from being used in bad attempts and break through the bottom line of social ethics and morality, it is imperative to improve relevant laws and regulations and strictly implement them to ensure that the application of technology is on a sound development track.
Source: Science Daily.