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Lifelong friends Megan Downing and Caroline McDonald were chosen for this years Joseph C. Free Memorial Scholarship.

More than 300 participants are expected at the second Pan-African Poultry Conference that Togo will host from May 16 to 18, 2023. The event is co-organized by the Regional Center of Excellence on Avian Sciences and the World Poultry Science Association (WPSA).

Pork Veterinary Solutions and Olmix will be sharing experience on this topic and provide tools and solutions to help manage gut health in pig farms.

UMD receives funding to enhance quality of pork production through improved muscle growth in pigs The University of Maryland (UMD) received funding from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to enhance the overall quality and efficiency of pork production through improved muscle growth in pigs. While early life nutrition seems to be especially important for how muscles grow and develop, less is known about how these benefits can be pa...

Credit: Edwin Remsberg, University of Maryland Nishanth E. Sunny, assistant professor in Animal and Avian Sciences (ANSC) at the University of Maryland (UMD), is leading a team to improve poultry production by examining the mysteries of embryonic and new-born chickens, with a long term goal of improving both animal and human health. The first week after hatch is a major indicator of how healthy a chicken will be and how well the bird will grow, and it is during this time that the birds undergo ...

Credit: Public domain Global development and population growth has led to an increased demand for seafood around the world, but along with that demand comes a need for improved production. To meet this need in one of the most popular fish in the U.S., the University of Maryland (UMD) was recently awarded a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to explore genomic selection as a method of increasing fillet quality and yield i...

Pig stem cells offer a new way to grow human organs for transplantation In a new paper published in Stem Cell Reports, Bhanu Telugu and co-inventor Chi-Hun Park of the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Animal and Avian Sciences show for the first time that newly established stem cells from pigs, when injected into embryos, contributed to the development of only the organ of interest (the embryonic gut and liver), laying the groundwork for stem cell therapeutics and organ transplantati...

Evident Way of Growing Human Organs for Transplantation by Angela Mohan on  December 18, 2020 at 12:09 PM The study published in Stem Cell Reports is done by Bhanu Telugu and co-inventor Chi-Hun Park of the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Animal and Avian Sciences. Telugus start-up company, Renovate Biosciences Inc. (RBI), was founded with the goal of leveraging the potential of stem cells to treat terminal diseases that would otherwise require organ transplants, ...

© Edwin Remsberg Bhanu Telugu in his lab at UMD. In a new paper published in Stem Cell Reports, Bhanu Telugu and co-inventor Chi-Hun Park of the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Animal and Avian Sciences show for the first time that newly established stem cells from pigs, when injected into embryos, contributed to the development of only the organ of interest (the embryonic gut and liver), laying the groundwork for stem cell therapeutics and organ transplantation. Telugus start-up ...