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Farming Today: The ethics of editing animal genes, a new study on bovine TB and a new rural chaplain for farmers in the south east

30/09/2016

The ethics of editing animal genes, a new study on bovine TB and a new rural chaplain for farmers in the south east

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, The ethics of editing animal genes, a new study on bovine TB and a new rural chaplain for farmers in the south east

Charlotte Smith discusses the ethics of genome editing and the latest study on bovine TB.

The ethics of editing animal genes and the governance of how this is applied within the agricultural industry; and can a mathematical model help us understand bovine TB?

The Council of Bioethics today publishes its first findings on the impact of advances in genome editing; they're looking at the need for an ethical review of how the technology is used and the need for regulations to govern it. The latest research on Bovine TB uses a mathematical model and questions the extent to which badgers cause TB in cattle; and how modern fish breeding is making the male of the species redundant.

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