{"id":1338481,"date":"2024-06-28T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=1338481"},"modified":"2024-06-28T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T13:15:42","slug":"research-underway-to-block-microbes-from-creating-methane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/research-underway-to-block-microbes-from-creating-methane\/","title":{"rendered":"Research underway to block microbes from creating methane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A collaboration of research across University of Californa (UC) is underway to develop new tools to block microbes from creating methane in cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The research led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield is using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), which selectively modifies the DNA of living organisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The $70 million research initiative backed by the\u00a0TED Audacious Project, is entitled ‘Engineering the\u00a0microbiome\u00a0with\u00a0CRISPR\u00a0to Improve our Climate and Health’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It involves a close collaboration across three UC campuses \u2014 the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n