The production of transgenic livestock has the opportunity to significantly improve human health, enhance nutrition, protect the environment, increase animal welfare, and decrease livestock disease.

Why major in animal science? Be part of solving one of humanity’s most critical grand challenges – the global demand for food and fiber. With the population expected to grow by 2.3 billion by 2050, ...

Sustainable development in the livestock industry must meet the demands of the world’s growing population for safe and secure food derived from animals reared under increasingly stringent conditions ...

Proceedings of a symposium jointly organized by the IAEA and FAO, Vienna, 15–19 April 1991. The symposium reviewed advances in nutrition and reproduction of ruminant and other herbivorous animals, as ...

Animal reproduction and breeding encompasses the full spectrum of natural, assisted and genetic processes that underpin the perpetuation, improvement and conservation of species across diverse taxa.

Do you prefer working with animals instead of being stationed at a desk? Do you have a preference for running cattle, like your dad, or sheep, like your mom? Are you constantly intrigued by science, ...

It is an awkward idea, but a couple's ability to have kids may partly depend on who else is present. The reproductive tracts of males and females contain whole communities of micro-organisms. These ...

Iris Xing, an animal science major, tends to her horse after a workout at the Equestrian Center. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Let me introduce myself. I am Kathryn Jackson, student academic advisor in ...

This past Tuesday (June 11), Dutch company Protix opened the world’s largest insect farm in Bergem op Zoom, a small town in the south of the Netherlands. Founded in 2009 by Dutch ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Focused on providing more and better solutions for animal productivity, Biogénesis Bagó, the biotechnology company specialized in the development ...

How do animals decide when to fight and when to walk, fly, slither, or swim away? Most research on animal conflict has focused on the short-term costs of single interactions, but a pair of behavioral ...

U.S. regulators announced new guidelines that call on global pharmaceutical companies to phase out the use of some antibiotics meant to enhance growth in animals used for food, hoping to stem a ...