Since removing the horns is time-consuming and takes the cows several weeks to heal, farmers began selectively breeding ...

Four of the calves also inherited a bit of the plasmid that had ferried the hornless gene, called POLLED, into the bull’s genome. The unintended presence of foreign DNA has derailed their route to ...

but not hornless Angus cattle carrying exactly the same allele: “This does not make any sense because the risk lies in the novel characteristics, if any, irrespective of the breeding method ...

Recombinetics, whose hornless dairy bulls garnered national ... that have successfully produced animals, such as pigs, cattle and fish, through gene editing, the bankruptcy filing says.

Horned herds have twice as many bruises as those in hornless herds. Why dehorning matters Dehorning plays a crucial role in cattle farming by reducing the risk of injuries among animals ...