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title: ""David Ishee is a Mississippi kennel operator with a passion for dogs…"
date: 2017-01-31
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# "David Ishee is a Mississippi kennel operator with a passion for dogs…

*January 31, 2017 · Facebook*

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[https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603530/a-biohackers-plan-to-upgrade-dalmatians-ends-up-in-the-doghouse/](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603530/a-biohackers-plan-to-upgrade-dalmatians-ends-up-in-the-doghouse/){target="_blank"}
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\"David Ishee is a Mississippi kennel operator with a passion for dogs and a plan to improve them using a gene-editing technology called CRISPR from a modest laboratory he's built in a plywood shed.\
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Sound unlikely? It's serious enough that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in a phone call last week, told Ishee he wouldn't be able to sell any edited dogs without their approval.\
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Ishee, a member of what's called the "biohacker" movement, says he is hoping to use inexpensive new gene-editing techniques to modify the genes of Dalmatians. By repairing a single DNA letter in their genomes, Ishee believes, he can rid them of an inherited disease, hyper uricemia, almost as closely associated with the breed as their white coats and black spots.\"\
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[https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603530/a-biohackers-plan-to-upgrade-dalmatians-ends-up-in-the-doghouse/](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603530/a-biohackers-plan-to-upgrade-dalmatians-ends-up-in-the-doghouse/){target="_blank"}
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