Clemson University delivers healthy mares and foals
... helping horsebreeders produce healthier mares and foals and may someday help addressproblems of infertility in humans. Dee L. Cross, a Clemson Universityanimal scientist, hypothesized that the medication, now patented asEquidone, could be useful in treating a condition called fescue toxicosisin pregnant m...UF study shows newborn kittens have shot at survival thanks to immune-boosting treatment
... "For years, veterinarians have been aware that foals and calves need to ingest colostrum, or first milk, at birth on the first day of life, but we have lagged behind in small animal medicine," said Julie Levy, an assistant professor of small animal medicine at UF. Unlike human babies, who acquire so...Advances in equine cloning may aid insight into human diseases
...e of Utah State University. All three cloned mule foals will be present at the exhibit hall in the Seattle...tly, the successful birth and development of these foals offered new opportunities to explore an alternate method of calcium regulation in equines that may a...Equine cloning's triple play sheds light on calcium, cell signaling, human disease
...daho-Utah State University project. All three mule foals were born unassisted after prototypical pregnancies. All three are vigorous, healthy and developing normally. The triplets were displayed in Seattle during Family Science Day Feb. 15 during the AAAS annual meeting. "The manipulation of calcium concen...