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And, until just a few months ago, Brazil was set to create a herd of hornless Holsteins from shipments of Buri’s sperm, Wired reported.But the plans were bucked after scientists at the Food and Drug Administration stumbled upon an utterly damning find earlier this year—Buri isn't all bull: he's a wee bit bacterium.When Recombinetics edited the cow cells that would later give rise to Buri, the company did so using bacterial DNA-editing machinery—which inadvertently got stitched into Buri's genome.The machinery involved are called TALENs (transcription activator-like effector nucleases), which are enzymes that can be customized to snip a targeted spot in a genetic code. And in addition to all the bacterial-editing machinery from the loop of DNA, Buri's genome includes the antibiotic resistance genes present on the plasmid, too—though they're unlikely to have any effect.The plasmid insertion is a big cow plop.
As said here by Beth Mole