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.
In the May 2 Sciencexpress, Karin Hübner and colleagues at the Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research, University of Pennsylvania, directly derive blastocysts from embryonic stem (ES) ...
Transgenesis raises various ethical and safety concerns, particularly when it comes to the creation of transgenic animals and the potential ecological impact of transgenic organisms. Strict ...
Also, animal models are often preferable for experimental ... Common directed techniques include transgenesis, single-gene knock-outs and knock-ins, conditional gene modifications, and chromosomal ...