Verification of identity and parentage of animals is essential for the efficient management of animal populations and for assessing animal food safety. Recently, DNA-based tests, specifically the ...

The team edited the animals' DNA to make them resist the deadly respiratory disease known as PRRS - a move that could prevent billions of pounds in losses each year. However, consumers have ...

Modern DNA technology is helping to protect African wild animals from the most ancient of criminal abuses—poaching for bushmeat. Long before elephant ivory carvings became fashionable, and before ...

More than a fifth of meat sample tests in 2017 found DNA from animals not on the labelling, the BBC has learned. Out of 665 results from England, Wales and Northern Ireland collected by the Food ...

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Hong Kong have created a mouse with substituted genes ...

Want to know if your pup is 100 percent Pointer? Mostly Mastiff? A dog DNA test uncovers your pooch's origins and offers ...