Showcase 2024 award winners announced
Dr. Jon Oatley wins Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award.
Food for a changing climate
Washington State Magazine | Washington State University researchers adapt livestock and crops to feed a more crowded, warming planet.
EU policymakers look to WSU gene-editing expertise
Professor Jon Oatley was recently invited to speak at an EU conference on agricultural biotechnology about his research on gene-editing livestock.
WSU researchers look into male birth control
The Lewiston Tribune
Gene editing could rid sheep of problematic long tails
Longer tails have long given sheep producers across the globe problems — but a research project spearheaded by WSU graduate student Brietta Latham could eliminate the trait.
Advances in animal genome editing continue apace
AVMA | JAVMA news
- WSU receives FDA approval for gene-edited livestock in human food Oregon Public Broadcasting
- WSU makes history with first ever gene-edited pigs for human consumption KIRO 7 | Seattle
- WSU first university to produce gene-edited meat for human consumption The Spokesman-Review
- First university to put gene-edited livestock into human food supply A WSU sausage has made history. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the university to use its gene-edited pigs for human consumption — in this case, as tasty, German-style sausages.
- New genetic target for male contraception identified Discovery of a gene in multiple mammalian species could pave the way for a highly effective, reversible and non-hormonal male contraceptive for humans and animals.
- Gene editing technology may help address world hunger Washington State University Professor Jon Oatley covered the growing problem of food insecurity and how genome engineering may help feed the planet during a talk titled “The Human-Animal Genomic Bond.”
- Spatial omics technology coming to WSU Researchers at WSU can now more easily study how cells pass information to each other, thanks to nearly $500,000 in grants from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.
- Subcommittee hearing highlights value of biotechnology in agriculture AgNetWest
- Academic groups seek easier approval path for gene-edited food animals AVMA | JAVMA news
- Gene editing: Experts say it’s time to remodel regulatory landscape Drovers