IDEAL, S.D. — Livestock producers around the country are bringing old genetics back to new herds thanks to the the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Germplasm Program. The animal ...

INHERIT lets cattle producers select replacement females and evaluate sires based on genetic predictions for BRD health and ...

Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) together with colleagues from Bochum and Paris discovered while studying ...

INHERIT® genetic predictions identify genetics for productivity and health during critical phase in beef herd rebuilding.

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has approved the establishment of the Center for Comparative Genomics in animal genetics. The center will contribute to genomic advances in human and ...

Genetic editing is an invaluable tool in biomedical research. Scientists have been able to engineer the genomes of a variety of animals, including fruit flies, zebrafish, and mice, to model diseases ...

Domestic cats introduced from the Near East and wildcats native to Europe did not mix until the 1960s, despite being exposed to each other for 2,000 years, according to two research papers published ...

One of the most striking revelations is that certain passages in the instructions for life have persisted across evolutionary time, representing a through line that binds all mammals – including us.