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By Ed Maixner
The process of producing food, protecting the environment, and improving animal health is advancing at
a seemingly breakneck pace.
These advancements are driven in part by new scientific discoveries, genetic research, data science,
enhanced computational power, and the availability of new systems for precision breeding like
CRISPR—an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.
The outcomes possible with different types of precision breeding today might have seemed impossible
just a few decades ago and these new opportunities have strong implications for both producers and
consumers. Consider just a few of the possibilities:
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