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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 25 2015, @10:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-goat-on-with-it dept.

China's western Shaanxi Province is known for rugged windswept terrain and its coal and wool, but not necessarily its science. Yet at the Shaanxi Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Shaanbei Cashmere Goats, scientists have just created a new kind of goat, with bigger muscles and longer hair than normal. The goats were made not by breeding but by directly manipulating animal DNA—a sign of how rapidly China has embraced a global gene-changing revolution.

Geneticist Lei Qu wants to increase goatherd incomes by boosting how much meat and wool each animal produces. For years research projects at his lab in Yulin, a former garrison town along the Great Wall, stumbled along, Qu's colleagues say. "The results were not so obvious, although we had worked so many years," his research assistant, Haijing Zhu, wrote in an e-mail.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 26 2015, @02:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 26 2015, @02:32AM (#268217)

    Haven't figured it out? China cares about China and nothing else. They will and do pollute the seas and air. They will and do poison both foreigners and their own people. They will and do bully other nations, break treaties, and do whatever else they believe they can get away with. In China's world the only thing that matters is China. Truth, reasoning, fairness, morality, or alliances are tools to be abused at best.

  • (Score: 1) by ksarka on Thursday November 26 2015, @07:04AM

    by ksarka (2789) on Thursday November 26 2015, @07:04AM (#268257)

    :%s/China/United States of America/g

    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday November 26 2015, @06:03PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 26 2015, @06:03PM (#268363) Journal

      Yeah, both are pretty much true. China is (historically) a bit more insular. Even the Monroe Doctrine was less insular than China's normal stance. Of coures, China includes more people than anyone else, so perhaps insular isn't the correct term.

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