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Sheep graze in a pasture near Moscow, Idaho.
Brietta Latham stands next to a tank containing beetles and caterpillars that clean mouse skeletons used in research to develop a gene-editing strategy to shorten the tails of Suffolk sheep and eliminate the need for tail docking. She’s a doctoral student in the Washington State University-School of Molecular Biosciences.
Longer tails have long given sheep producers problems. But a research project spearheaded by a Washington State University graduate student could eliminate the trait.
Devin Rokyta is a digital-marketing writer working with the Washington State University-College of Veterinary Medicine.
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Brietta Latham stands next to a tank containing beetles and caterpillars that clean mouse skeletons used in research to develop a gene-editing strategy to shorten the tails of Suffolk sheep and eliminate the need for tail docking. She’s a doctoral student in the Washington State University-School of Molecular Biosciences.
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