After the successful completion of the experiment, according to Russian scientists, it will be possible to create
At the moment, allergy sufferers are offered insteadFor cow's milk, choose soy, oat, or rice. But there is another way to produce a safe dairy product – with the help of advances in genetics. Russian researchers are going to use cloning to create breeds of cows in which the beta-lactoglobulin gene will be inactive.
Scientists are working on breeding such breeds.Institute of Animal Husbandry named after L.K. Ernst. In 2020, they managed to breed the first cloned calf. But this is only the first step, the first stage of the experiment. It is also necessary to raise it and test the milk for allergenicity. It is now known that the milk from this cloned cow is still capable of causing allergies. Therefore, researchers plan to move on to editing the genome of an individual. To do this, a molecular tool will be used to precisely cut out the desired gene, – CRISPR/Cas9.
Source: Scientific Russia