Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved genetically engineered salmon as fit for human consumption. It was the first time that a transgenic animal had been cleared to be sold ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has written to the leaders of 70 universities reminding them to comply with the agency’s regulations on research to create transgenic animals with desired traits.

Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple ...

The Animal Physiology Core (APC) provides for diabetes related phenotyping in small animal models. Services offered include the assessment of body composition, energy balance, glucose homeostasis, and ...

Transgenic organisms are living beings whose genetic material has been artificially modified by introducing genes from another species. This process, known as transgenesis, allows for the transfer of ...

PHILADELPHIA – Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have successfully used a retrovirus to modify genes in spermatogonial stem cells in a mouse – the first ...

"Transgenic Animals Produced Using Cultured Sperm; Study Opens New Possibilities For Biological Research, Gene Therapy." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2004 / 01 / 040127085535.htm ...

In late 2010, PharmAthene closed the site where it had made the recombinant enzyme Protexia in the milk of transgenic animals. Government support for the nerve agent countermeasure had waned because ...

BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 26, 2004 – A Japanese-U.S. team today reported the successful creation of transgenic animals using sperm genetically modified and grown in a laboratory dish, an achievement with ...