Indian-administered Kashmir: How is India's first gene-edited sheep Tarmeem doing?

India's first gene-edited sheep recently turned a year old and researchers who developed it say it's doing well.

Born on 16 December last year in Indian-administered Kashmir, the sheep has been named Tarmeem – the Arabic word for modification or editing.

Tarmeem is housed in a private enclosure at the Sher-e-Kashmir Agricultural University in the region's main city Srinagar along with its non-edited twin sister.

Researchers at the university told the BBC that they used CRISPR technology - a biological system for altering DNA – to develop it.

Basically what it allows scientists to do is use it like a pair of scissors to chop off bits of a gene that cause weaknesses or diseases.