{"id":216498,"date":"2016-05-02T15:12:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=216498"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:12:58","slug":"genetically-modified-salmon-for-human-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/genetically-modified-salmon-for-human-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetically modified salmon for human consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_216499\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216499\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tecno_AquAdvantage_Salmon.jpg\" alt=\"Company develops a fish that grows two times faster and eats less feed\" width=\"290\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tecno_AquAdvantage_Salmon.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tecno_AquAdvantage_Salmon-250x129.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tecno_AquAdvantage_Salmon-120x62.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">AquaBounty Technologies<\/span>Company develops a fish that grows two times faster and eats less feed<span class=\"media-credits\">AquaBounty Technologies<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In November 2015, after a thorough scientific investigation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first genetically modified animal for human consumption in the United States \u2013 a salmon, to be exact. AquaBounty Technologies began developing the fish 20 years ago. The genetically modified salmon is an Atlantic species (<em>Salmo salar<\/em>) that grows two times faster than the specimens traditionally raised on fish farms. Instead of taking three years, the fish grows to market size within 18 months, consuming 20% to 25% less feed in the process. In a press release, the FDA stated that the genetically modified salmon is as safe and nutritious as the conventional fish. The genetic engineering that created a more productive salmon used genes from two other species. One is for a hormone from the Chinook salmon (<em>Oncorhynchus tshawytscha<\/em>), a Pacific species that grows much larger than its Atlantic counterparts. The other \u2013 from the eel <em>Zoarces americanus<\/em>, found in the northwest Atlantic \u2013 codes for a promoter sequence of \u201cantifreeze\u201d proteins that enable the genetically modified animal to grow during the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FDA approved the first genetically modified animal for human consumption","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[237,251],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-216498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-genetics","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216498"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=216498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}