Sentences with phrase «healthy piglets»

The next hurdle: get the surrogate - mother sows that are pregnant with genetically altered embryos to give birth to healthy piglets.

The pregnant pigs fed every day gave birth to heavier and healthier piglets than those fed every third day.

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To figure out if the SADS virus isolated from sick piglets had been the cause of their demise, researchers infected healthy farm piglets with the virus.

And another litter of eight piglets cloned from one of the pigs that perished proved healthier and nearly as omega - 3 rich, the researchers revealed in the paper presenting their findings, published online yesterday in Nature Biotechnology.

The two - dose inactivated vaccine, licensed for use in healthy pregnant sows and gilts, is designed to help them develop antibodies that can be transmitted to their newborn piglets.