Gene editing makes chickens resistant against avian flu

When bird flu is reported, birds within a certain radius must often be culled by law. EggXYt is developing a tool to end this costly practice. The Israeli company, known for its flagship egg-sexing solution, was founded in late 2016 when co-founder Professor Dani Offen of Tel Aviv University approached Yehuda Elram (CEO) with his idea to use CRISPR, a revolutionary and Nobel Prize-winning gene editing technology, to put an end to the culling of male day-old chicks. The resulting product, seXYt,