CAS Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health breeds pig models for research on albinism and Parkinson’s disease.

Using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, the team of Lai LIANG bred a minipig variety with loss of tyrosinase and a variety with a PARK2 and PINK1 double knockout.. Appropriate plasmids were transfected into minipig fetal fibroplasts, obtaining homozygous transgenic animals

CAS news release, Oct. 14, 2014

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