The agency has decided to categorize genetically engineered farm animals, also called transgenic animals, as an “animal drug.” They will be held to the same requirements already existing for ...

GloFish are the first transgenic animals available to the American public. But what's the biotechnology behind them? Prior to these classic experiments, the idea that the genetic material was a ...

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.

provides for diabetes related phenotyping in small animal models. Services offered include the assessment of body composition, energy balance, glucose homeostasis, and transgenic animals models. The ...

A cloned beagle named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – is the world’s first transgenic dog ... And a dog genome sequence has made the animals an even more useful model by quickening the ...

The first transgenic animals were produced by injecting DNA into eggs, implanting the eggs in animals and then waiting weeks or months to see if any offspring had incorporated the extra DNA.

Its purpose? To make a drug in its eggs. This isn't the first time that the FDA has approved a transgenic animal for drug production. Six years ago, the US government approved genetically modified ...

Scientists working with mice, for example, can order animals online with the specific genetic properties they are hoping to study — transgenic animals, whose genes have been artificially ...

By releasing the wildtype at a later stage, the transgenic animals can therefore also be removed again more easily from the environment. In population genetics this is known as underdominance.

Scientists working with mice, for example, can order animals online with the specific genetic properties they are hoping to study—transgenic animals, whose genes have been artificially tinkered ...