The 2025 ISU McKean Swine Disease Conference is expanding with two valuable preconference workshops focused on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae eradication and PRRS (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of gene-edited technology that results in a pig resistant to the ...

You may recall that Dr. Kim VanderWaal’s group in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine has been classifying PRRS ...

Outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) and other viral pathogens have underscored the importance of comprehensive biosecurity ...

The interest in the possibilities offered by gene editing is growing – in both human medicine and in the livestock world. In livestock production, many of the most promising examples and opportunities ...

British company Genus used the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR to make pigs immune to a virus that causes an illness called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS). It's the same ...

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute focused on the CD163 gene in pigs, which produces a receptor on the surface of cells that the PRRS virus uses to cause infection. They ...

PIC's gene-edited pigs are highly resistant to one of the most harmful viruses affecting pig populations worldwide today.

Globally, people get animal protein mostly from chickens, with pigs and cattle in second and third place. A 2023 report ...

This gene produces a receptor on the surface of cells, which the PRRS virus uses to cause infection. Experts removed a small section of this gene, focusing on the section of the receptor that the ...