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.

Transgenic animals usually are created by injecting the desired gene—which may be intended to confer an advantage in husbandry or nutrition, for example—into a single-cell embryo or by ...

Muir likes to use the example of the male bird of paradise with its long swells of gloriously colored ... Such risks should be evaluated with each new transgenic animal before release.

Examples include crops engineered to be resistant to pests, tolerant to herbicides, or enriched with essential nutrients like vitamins and minerals. Transgenic animals, such as cows producing human ...

For more information on obtaining null mutant and transgenic mice contact Jerry Stitzel. We have breeding colonies of null mutants (gene knockouts) for eight of the eleven known mammalian neuronal ...