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 ...

In the coming months, a few shoppers will encounter a new and unfamiliar phrase when looking at packages of pork: "Produced without the use of ractopamine." It's the brainchild of David Maren, founder ...

Researchers at Uppsala University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Broad Institute have discovered a previously unknown gene ZBED6 that is unique to placental mammals. The gene ...

Someday soon, for reasons as sweeping as international trade and as granular as a single farmer’s marketing strategy, the word ractopamine could appear on packages of pork chops. Also known as Paylean ...

Genetically altered pigs are being bred on a farm in Cambodia, and their enormous size and hulking muscles are raising alarm. The shocking sight of these "double-muscle" pigs—with enlarged buttocks ...

It sounds like the plot of a science fiction film, but it’s real: scientists have now managed to get human cells to grow inside a pig embryo, according to an experiment reported in the journal Cell.