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Bookmark or Share- What You Should Know About Genetically Engineered SalmonBy combining DNA from three animals: Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ), deep water ocean eelpout ( Macrozoarces americanus) and Pacific Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ). (Pacific Chinook salmon are a different species from Atlantic salmon.) Why was this done? To manufacture an animal that grows unnaturally fast.
- Salmon Is the First Transgenic Animal to Win U.S. Approval ...The genetically modified fish, called ‘AquAdvantage' salmon, were engineered by AquaBounty Technologies of Maynard, Massachusetts, to express higher levels of a growth hormone than wild...
- AquAdvantage Salmon Fact Sheet | FDAAquAdvantage Salmon has been genetically engineered to reach a growth marker important to the aquaculture industry more rapidly than its non-GE farm-raised Atlantic salmon counterpart.
- Five Things to Know About the Genetically Engineered Salmon ...November 19, 2015. Don Mason. Is AquAdvantage a super salmon or a "Frankenfish"? For years, controversy has swirled around a new, fast-growing fish, which has been engineered with chromosomes...
- Genetically modified salmon | Living OceansGenetically modified (GM) salmon were patented by Canadian scientists who took a gene that regulates growth hormones in Pacific Chinook salmon and a promoter—the equivalent of a genetic 'on-off' switch—from an ocean pout and introduced them into the genetic structure of an Atlantic salmon.
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