stackyFACTSRemoving horns from dairy cows is a bloody, brutal process. To avoid it, geneticists have edited the genome of dairy breeds to include the naturally occurring 'polled' gene from beef cattle. Now, the calves are simply born without the biological blueprints to grow horns, solving a welfare issue through sheer genetic brute force.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Technology →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Many engineered seeds are not designed to yield better nutrients; they are explicitly designed to survive biological warfare. Scientists modify soybeans and…
Discover more
Attaching a continuous vacuum directly to a cow is a fantastic way to cause agonizing physical damage. Early inventors learned very quickly that the suction…
Discover more
Picking the sticky seeds out of raw cotton by hand is a miserable existence. The cotton gin fixes this by dragging the fluffy raw cotton through a terrifying…
Discover more
Before humans used it to play God with designer biology, CRISPR was just microscopic organisms fighting off cold viruses. This revolutionary gene-splicing…
Discover more
Indoor plants only care about specific light spectrums, so we blast them with aggressive nightclub lighting. Chlorophyll primarily absorbs red and blue light…
Discover more
Those ridiculously vibrant tetras at the pet store are not the product of selective breeding. Scientists injected the embryos of common fish with the natural…
Discover more