On April 26, 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announced that the New World screwworm (NWS) had…
In 2017, Virginia Tech veterinary pathologist Kevin Lahmers identified the Asian longhorned tick as the source of seven…
On Oct. 6, 2016, Washington University School of Medicine researchers announced they had sequenced the genome of the…
On Aug. 4, 2016, the Southwest National Primate Research Center at Texas Biomedical Research Institute was awarded more…
On Aug. 12, 2015, the Cephalopod Sequencing Consortium announced the first-ever sequencing of the entire octopus genome. Researchers…
On Jun. 15, 2015, UAlberta scientists announced first whole genome sequence of bighorn sheep. With advances in DNA…
On May 31, 2015, the New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC) closed its doors. During its five decades…
In 2015, the California Life Sciences Association was founded. (CLSA) was founded when the Bay Area Bioscience Association…
On Aug. 5, 2014, the genome sequence of the common cat was published in GigaScience. The DNA of…
On Jan. 24, 2014, InBios announced that it had licensed a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) West Nile…
On Sept. 18, 2013, it was reported a parasite that infects up to one-third of people around the…
On Aug. 6, 2013, Chinese scientists from Zhejiang University and BGI announced in a study published in Cell…
On Jun. 26, 2013 researchers at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark announced…
On May 8, 2013, a research team from Texas A&M, led by Drs. Christopher Seabury and Ian Tizard…
On Jun. 13, 2012, in a project led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig,…
In 2012, The UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center received NCI comprehensive cancer designation. The center is a matrix…
On Jun. 28, 2011, during the 37th United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Conference, the 192 Member countries…
On Jan. 26, 2011, the Orangutan Genome Sequencing Consortium, a collaboration between the Human Genome Sequencing Center at…
On Nov. 16, 2009, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended a single dose of…
On Nov. 2, 2009, an international consortium lead by Larry Schook at the University of Illinois in Champaign…
On Jun. 15, 2008, Australia announced it had approved the first locally made vaccine to protect humans from…
On May 3, 2008, a major expansion of Oregon State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine’s large animal clinical…
On Apr. 14. 2007, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) established the One Health initiative Task Force, an…
In Jan. 2007, the sequencing of the horse genome project was completed. The initial goal of the Horse…
On Nov. 27, 2006, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was officially signed into law by President George…
In 2006, the Kansas State University Biosecurity Research Institute dedicated the Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI) that was designed…
On Mar. 13, 2005, Paris Texas, the first cloned horse in North America was born at the College…
On Aug. 2, 2004, the U.S. Congress passed the Minor Use and Minor Species Animal Health Act to…
On May 28, 2003, the world’s first cloned horse named Prometea was born at the Laboratory of Reproductive…
On May 4, 2003, University of Idaho-Utah State University researchers became the first in the world to clone…