News by Wageningen Livestock Research
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Cryopreservation and freeze-drying of cells and tissues
- The new edition of Cryopreservation and Freeze-Drying Protocols is now published in the series “Methods in Molecular Biology”. The book... -
New insights in cattle genetic diversity
- On Friday the 18th of September 2020, Harmen Doekes will defend his PhD thesis at Wageningen University & Research, entitled “Genomic... -
Future dairy barn offers more room for cows and climate
- The majority of cows live in barns whose design has barely been updated over the last fifty years; the cubicle stable. Dairy barns of the future will... -
Variance estimates could continue to be estimated using pedigree relationships
- Currently variance estimates are estimated using pedigree-based relationships. As the number of genotyped animals increases, new methods of building... -
Breed4Food STW Partnership Day livestock breeding
- On Tuesday 9 June, an online seminar took place for all industrial and scientific partners of the Breed4Food STW Partnership Programme: predicting... -
Predicting individual performance from genomic information using Neural Networks
- Neural networks are interesting models for prediction of individual phenotypes in livestock using genomic data, because these models can fit complex... -
AGROS programme launched: businesses work with WUR to optimise agroecology with technology
- Society has become more critical of the greenhouse horticulture, arable farming and dairy industries and demands change, but the current farming... -
Enhancing turkey welfare one step at a time
- Researchers of Wageningen Livestock Research have been able to define when a turkey takes a step. This is an important milestone to automating gait... -
Milking robot helps to breed trouble-free cows
- Fluctuations in milk yield measured by milking robots can be used to breed cows that can cope well with problems. Cows with less fluctuations are... -
How about the risk status of the Dutch farm animal breeds?
- The farm animal breed list presents the status of all Dutch breeds. About 90% of the 140 listed breeds are at risk, the risk classification is based...