About the Book: Biotechnology in Animal Health and Production
This book describes and evaluates animal biotechnology and itsapplication in
veterinary medicine and pharmaceuticals as well asimprovement in animal food
production. Transgenic technologies areused for improving milk production and
the meat in farm animals aswell as for creating models of human diseases.
Transgenic animalsare used for the production of proteins for human medical
use.Biotechnology is applied to facilitate xenotransplantation fromanimals to
humans. Genetic engineering is done in farm animals andnuclear transfer
technology has become an important and preferredmethod for cloning animals.
Biotechnology has potential applications in the management ofseveral animal
diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, classicalswine fever, avian flue