Could cow milk be the new cure for diabetes? Researchers have genetically modified a brown cow in Brazil to produce human insulin in its milk, which marks a breakthrough in diabetes treatment research ...

In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an ...

A genetically modified cow has produced milk containing human insulin, according to a new study. The proof-of-concept achievement could be scaled up to, eventually, produce enough insulin to ensure ...

Dr. Jim Donahue and his team at ReproHealth Technologies are tweaking the design on a device that allows a surrogate cow to incubate embryos. (IBJ photos/Eric Learned) Dr. Jim Donahue did not ...

Avian influenza has raged through Michigan's bird population for two years, forcing commercial farmers and people with backyard coops to kill nearly 6.8 million infected chickens and turkeys, ...

In recent months, the avian influenza virus, commonly known as bird flu, has taken alarming steps toward becoming a bigger ...

Cows have entry portals for both human and bird flus. This new finding may mean that cattle could host both types of flus at once. The two viruses could then swap parts to create a new type of ...

Scientists are on alert for changes in the H5N1 or bird flu virus that could signal it is adapting to spread among humans. The virus has caused serious, sometimes fatal, infections among people and ...