Gene-edited cattle have a major screwup in their DNA

Bid for barnyard revolution is set back after regulators find celebrity “hornless” bovines contaminated by bacterial genes. They were the poster animals for the gene-editing revolution, appearing in story after story. By adding just a few letters of DNA to the genomes of dairy cattle, a US startup company had devised a way to make sure the animals never grew troublesome horns. (source: technologyreview.com)

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