World’s first gene-edited polo horses unleashed in Argentina for speed supremacy
The plan is for them to outpace the speed of the donor and set new records in the game.
The world’s first genetically edited polo horses are here, all thanks to the efforts of a biotech firm based in Argentina.
Kheiron Biotech – a firm based in Buenos Aires – has used the CRISPR-Cas9 technique to create five gene-edited horses that have the genes of Argentina’s award-winning mare, Polo Pureza.
It is worth knowing that the mare, whose name in Spanish Polo Pureza translates to ‘Polo Purity’ in English, has even been inducted into the Argentine Association of Polo Horse Breeders Hall of Fame, as per a report by Reuters.