AMES, Iowa – Beef and dairy producers want the animals in their herds to possess the best genetics possible. But a cow can have only one calf per year, which places a natural limitation on how widely ...

Embryo transfer allows producers to utilize both their best male and female traits in their herds. It's something that has become more adopted in the dairy cattle industry. Chelsea Abbott, dairy ...

Superovulation and embryo transfer form a cornerstone of modern cattle breeding, enabling rapid dissemination of superior genetics by inducing multiple ovulations in donor cows and transferring ...

CALMAR, Iowa -- Who should perform embryo transfer work on dairy animals generated a lot of discussion at a recent Iowa State Dairy Association regional policy meeting in the Dairy Center at Calmar.

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University animal science and veterinary researchers made possible the first ever successful bovine embryo transfers in the Republic of Kosovo, paving the way toward improved ...

Cryopreservation of bovine embryos is a cornerstone of modern cattle breeding, enabling long-term storage, transport and synchronised transfer of genetic material. Two principal approaches dominate ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center stem cell and developmental biologists and colleagues have developed a method to produce bovine blastoids, a crucial step in replicating embryo formation in the lab that ...

This story was originally published by Sen tient Media. It has been edited to conform with Corporate Knights style. Amid the cow-shaped ice sculptures at the 20th annual Embryos on Snow event in ...

Cornell researchers have uncovered the genetic triggers that cause male and female bovine embryos to develop differently, as early as seven to eight days after fertilization. The breakthrough in basic ...