In Canada, HCD did not always cause early death. Some suspect homozygous females lived for two years. VanRaden notes that calf death, caused by a genetic defect, typically creates a greater economic ...

Dairy producers have the opportunity to acquire a Holstein calf with elite genetics when they bid on Jenny-Lou Million 2719 at the Professional Dairy Producers Foundation Live Auction on March 16. The ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

From a standpoint of genetics and animal breeding, reproductive traits are low in heritability (typically 10% - 20%) but show high levels of heterosis in response to crossbreeding. From a practical ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Researchers have found a compound in ginger, called furanodienone (FDN), that selectively binds to and regulates a nuclear receptor involved in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD ...

As bull-sale season begins, NCBA webinar focuses on genetic selection, highlighting an old tool; crossbreeding, and a newer tool; genomic testing. A recent webinar from NCBA’s Producer Education ...

Doctors diagnosed Carmen Lopez with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) at birth, a rare genetic disorder that affects motor neurons and can lead to paralysis and death.

It certainly sounds like the Irish AI companies are up for effecting change in the ownership of the best genetics. I hope Irish farmers ... own/share a stake in the ‘IP’ given that the expected bull ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

Uterine cancer (also known as endometrial cancer) is the fourth most common cancer women in the U.S. are diagnosed with. It ...