This issue of Animal Frontiers,“Farm animals are important biomedical models,” describes
several examples in which cattle, sheep, pigs, or chickens provide an excellent …

• Methods for genome editing have developed over the past decades, making the
technology more efficient and specific.• Technology to generate edited pigs and chickens is …

Pigs serve as an important agricultural resource and animal model in biomedical studies.
Efficient and precise modification of pig genome by using recently developed gene editing …

Livestock have contributed significantly to advances in biomedicine and offer unique
advantages over rodent models. The human is the ideal biomedical model; however, ethical …

The first genetically modified large animals were developed in 1985 by microinjection to
increase the growth of agricultural livestock such as pigs. Since then, it has been a difficult …

Genetic modification of livestock has a longstanding and successful history, starting with
domestication several thousand years ago. Modern animal breeding strategies …

The chicken is an exemplar of efficient intensive animal agriculture and provides two
valuable food products, chicken meat and eggs. Only aquaculture is better, by efficiency, but …

The chicken represents a valuable model for research in the area of immunology, infectious
diseases as well as developmental biology. Although it was the first livestock species to …

Pigs are important livestock for food and have been used in various biomedical studies,
particularly translational research, as experimental animals because of their anatomical and …

Milk and meat from cattle and buffaloes contribute 45% of the global animal protein supply,
followed by chickens (31%), and pigs (20%). In 2016, the global cattle population of 1.0 …