Animal rights organization PETA revealed on Wednesday, Sept. 27, of pigs in Cambodia that are genetically engineered to develop heaps of muscle mass. By producing bigger pigs, farmers can sell more ...

Now scientists have shown that they can reproduce this condition, called double muscling, using simple gene editing, rather than employing a difficult breeding regime. As Nature reports, a team in ...

Pigs get ripped with this one weird trick: Knocking out the porcine gene MSTN, according to a report in Nature News. Seoul National University’s Jin-Soo Kim, a member of the team who created the pigs, ...

Issues relating to genetic modification are a regular feature on Digital Journal. This week has seen two interesting stories make the news, relating to butterflies and GM pollen and changes to the pig ...

Less than a month after the genetically modified “micropigs” hit the pet market, Chinese scientists have just announced the successful engineering of double-muscled dogs. With twice the muscle mass of ...