Simple Summary With conventional breeding practices, even the best dairy/beef cows will
likely produce no more than half-a-dozen calves in their lifetimes; a crime, would you not
agree? In contrast, with embryo transfer technologies, a cow can pass her genetics to
hundreds of calves through surrogate cows. As such, embryo transfer, particularly involving
embryos produced by in vitro fertilization, also known as IVF, is being widely adopted.
However, pregnancy rates from the transfer of IVF embryos remain unimpressive. Prior to …