Change is challenging and the linked articles demonstrate the biomedical change that we are in the mist. In the Biomedical News Department, The MIT Technology Review reports that the have edited the genes of a Beagle to create a genetically-engineered, extra-muscular dog.
I have linked two articles for your review. The gene engineering being performed on the dogs provides the answer to our question, is evolution a theory?
MIT Technology Review writes, “The dogs have “more muscles and are expected to have stronger running ability, which is good for hunting, police (military) applications,” Liangxue Lai, a researcher with the Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, said in an e-mail.” Click here to view the entire article.
The MIT TR article goes on to explain: “The dog researchers took much the same approach, directly introducing the gene-editing chemicals—a DNA snipping enzyme, Cas9, and a guide molecule that zeroes in to a particular stretch of DNA—into more than 60 dog embryos. Their objective was to damage, or knock out, both copies of the myostatin gene so that the beagles’ bodies would not produce any of the muscle-inhibiting protein that the gene manufactures.”
The Independent News Science article states: ”
The beagles, who will be kept at the Guangzhou General Pharmaceutical Research Institute, are from the first dogs to be seen with the genetic quirk. Losing the myostatin gene happens naturally in whippets, and leads to the creation of double-muscled “bully whippets” who are much more strong than standard animals.
The change can also happen very rarely for humans. Doctors reported around ten years ago that a child had been born with extra muscles and unusually strong, as a result of being born without the gene.”
The Whippet dog picture herein comes from The Independent article.