India has quietly crossed a scientific threshold in its northernmost region. At a state agricultural university in Kashmir, researchers have successfully developed the country’s first gene-edited sheep – an animal that has now completed a year of monitored growth with normal health indicators and improved muscle development. The achievement has not triggered headlines or public debate. Yet its implications extend well beyond the laboratory in which it was born.

Developed at Sher-e-Kashmir Agricultural University in Srinagar, the project reflects years of publicly funded research that has advanced quietly, without the regulatory attention such breakthroughs usually demand.The sheep was developed using precision gene-editing techniques that alter an organism’s existing DNA rather than inserting foreign genetic material. By disabling a gene knownto limit muscle growth, scientists have demonstrated measurable gains in body mass without observable physiological stress.This is not experimental........

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