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 ...

Cells in cow udders could act as a site for human flu and bird flu viruses to swap genes and generate dangerous novel strains ...

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 ...

The US Department of Agriculture this week posted an unpublished version of its genetic analysis into the spillover and spread of bird flu into US dairy cattle, offering the most complete look yet at ...

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 ...

Baby Cows' Impatience To Meet Human Neighbor Tugs at the Heartstrings originally appeared on PetHelpful. Dogs and cats may have been domesticated over thousands of years to become the pets we know and ...

What if you could have a conversation with a cow and ask it questions? That’s what Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University wanted to do. And they had a number of questions in ...

K-State beef cattle experts encourage producers to watch for weakness, aggression and pale mucous membrane as key signs of ...

In order for something like that to happen, a cow infected with the bird flu virus would need to pick up a different flu strain from an infected human. Currently, human flu infections are low across ...