Four of the calves also inherited a bit of the plasmid that had ferried the hornless gene, called POLLED, into the bull’s genome. The unintended presence of foreign DNA has derailed their route to ...

What started out as a fringe area of interest to some in the dairy industry, the incorporation of polled genetics has exploded into the mainstream application, from Burket’s work and effort in ...

Van Eenennaam and other researchers saw a better alternative to this practice: gene editing. The polled allele is dominant to the horned allele. It involves a naturally occurring insertion of ...