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Christine Burkard

joined in Feb 13, 2019

Assistant professor at The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Burkard has 1 break published.

Gene edited “superpigs” resist devastating disease

Genome editors are simple tools that allow scientists to make very precise changes to the genome of any organism by cutting the genome at a very precise location. If you imagine the genome as a single, continuous string of information containing the instructions to build... click to read more

Christine Burkard | Assistant professor at The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

genetics

disease

resistance

genome editors

Reading time 4.5 min

published on Feb 13, 2019

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