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Bill Gates Donates $40 Million for Genetic Research on Cows

Accepted submission by takyon at 2018-02-01 02:18:45
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Bill Gates has donated $40 million to Scottish researchers trying to create a cow [futurism.com] that can thrive in hotter conditions, such as those in Africa:

Tweaking genes could be one way of increasing the hardiness of some livestock breeds. By isolating desirable genetics traits from European and African cow breeds, geneticists hope to design a cow that produces high quantities of milk and is also able to withstand exceptionally high temperatures [futurism.com].

An Edinburgh-based nonprofit, GALVmed (Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines) just received $40 million [galvmed.org] from Bill Gates to conduct genetic research with this aim in mind. "You can have a cow that is four times as productive with the same survivability," Gates told the Times [thetimes.co.uk].

The philanthropist told the BBC [bbc.co.uk] that he was investing in the nonprofit's research because "there is great [...] understanding here of both animal diseases and how we can treat it, and how we enhance the genetics so that you can get, say the same type of milk or egg productivity that we have in the U.K."

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