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GM chickens – stopping the spread of avian flu

Speakers:
Prof Helen Sang, Professor of Vertebrate Molecular Development, Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh
Dr Laurence Tiley, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Virology, University of Cambridge

Research published in Science identified a way of genetically modifying chickens so that they would be unable to transmit the avian flu virus, as a possible means of tackling avian flu.

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