Understanding how poultry responds to avian influenza at the cellular level could help geneticists create disease-resistant birds.

Birds have developed a unique evolutionary solution to ensure the survival of males—a powerful microRNA. This tiny gene ...

Yet exercise can sometimes be deceptive. Years before starting Virta Health, while cofounding the real-estate company Trulia, ...

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Tuesday called for improving local livestock breeds to raise productivity in meat and dairy ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

The health sector faces challenges including Brazilian chicken import restrictions due to bird flu, South Korean medical ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species.

A new study shows chicken fertility rates in US broiler eggs could decline to approximately 60% by 2050. That decline could ...

Brazilian exports of poultry and pig meat, genetic material and eggs have gained significant market share globally over the ...