Humans have selectively bred animals and crops since the beginning of agriculture, but advances in biotechnology have provided genetic tools to select specific traits. First applied to animals in the ...

Animal health and welfare, worker safety, food safety and environmental performance must work in sync for true sustainability ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new suite of statistical methods that dramatically improves ...

The study of genetic parameters has become increasingly central to optimising goat production systems worldwide. Researchers have long focused on estimating heritability, genetic correlations, and the ...

The team is composed of staff from the Animal Production and Health Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture and FAO’s Animal Production and Health Division.

NC State scientists created a statistical framework that dramatically improves fine-mapping in livestock, where relatedness ...

Investors, governments and consumers around the world are continuing to challenge corporations to aggressively reduce their environmental footprints. To date, 83 percent of Fortune 500 companies have ...

The Animal Production and Health Sub-Programme primarily address the challenges imposed by highly infectious animal diseases on livestock production in FAO and IAEA Member States (MS). Our goal is to ...

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 ...

The University of Nevada, Reno recently welcomed Assistant Professor Andrew Hess to the Department of Agriculture, Veterinary & Rangeland Sciences. Hess will be focusing his research on innovation in ...

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