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 ...

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 ...

For decades, embryo technologies were viewed as tools reserved for seedstock breeders, show-focused programs or those chasing the absolute top end of pedigree-driven genetics. But today, the economics ...

An article published in the journal Cell Stem Cell describes the first scientific study to develop blastoids – "synthetic embryos", as they were initially (and incorrectly) called – from bovine ...