News tagged with piglets
Maternal gene causes more piglets to be born
A sow gives birth to more piglets if the DIO3 gene from its mother is expressed instead of the same gene inherited from its father. This is shown during research conducted by the Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre in Wageningen ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Healthy piglets? Not with sulfonamides
Recent work from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna confirms that sulfonamides can be used to control coccidiosis in piglets, although not without considerable effort and expense. In contrast, the drug toltrazuril ...
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Perinatal flavor learning and adaptation to being weaned: All the pig needs is smell
Weaning can be a stressful time, but new research published in the Oct. 19 edition of the online journal PLoS ONE shows that the presence of familiar flavors in food, or even in the surrounding air, has positive effects on pig ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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China clones castrated quake hero pig
A heroic pig who survived more than a month buried under rubble after the 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan province has been successfully cloned, according to a report Sunday.
Sep 18, 2011 |
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Piglets open doors to study infant brain development
Events occurring during the development of an infant's brain can leave behind fingerprints. And researchers at the University of Illinois are interested in learning how these fingerprints can predict future behavioral problems ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Vaccine to stop pig parasite could reduce human disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- A vaccine against the tapeworm Taenia solium has eliminated transmission of the parasite in pigs in a field trial in Africa. It is hoped that the vaccine could indirectly reduce the incidence ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Researchers to implant pig cells in diabetics
(AP) -- A New Zealand biotech company began a trial Thursday that will implant cells from newborn pigs into eight human volunteers as an experimental treatment for their diabetes.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Swine flu: What does it do to pigs?
The effects of H1N1 swine flu have been investigated in a group of piglets.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 11, 2009 |
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S.Korea scientists clone pig for human transplants
South Korean scientists said they have cloned a piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants.
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Piglet
Piglet, the diminutive form of the word pig, can refer to:
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