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Evonik backs chick-saving start-up In Ovo

by Melody M. Bomgardner
November 2, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 44

 

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In Ovo's technology helps egg producers hatch only female chicks.

Evonik Industries has invested in the Dutch start-up In Ovo, which has developed a process for determining the sex of a chicken embryo inside of the egg soon after fertilization. Only female chicks are raised in egg production facilities; In Ovo estimates 3.2 billion day-old male chicks are killed annually worldwide. The company’s system takes a sample through a tiny resealable hole and tests it for a sex biomarker using mass spectrometry. In Ovo is working to speed up its 1-second-per-egg process.

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