Investment to the tune of US$25m has been announced by Hendrix Genetics in the form of a new commercial turkey hatchery in South Dakota, United States.

The hatchery will provide up to 30m day-old Hybrid poults and lead to the addition of 100 new temporary and permanent jobs at the site at Beresford.

The new hatchery will have the capacity for 35m hatching eggs and will be fitted with cutting edge equipment to ensure the highest biosecurity and poult quality.

Dave Libertini, Hendrix Genetics managing director, said: The new hatchery allows us to continue to deliver on our core focus of providing top quality genetics that match the needs of the market and our customers. Photo: ANP / Justin Sullivan

It is part of a substantial investment plan by Hendrix, which includes new hatcheries, egg production facilities and a modern transportation fleet and follows previous investments in grandparent facilities in Kansas and Nebraska.

Dave Libertini, Hendrix Genetics managing director, said: The new hatchery allows us to continue to deliver on our core focus of providing top quality genetics that match the needs of the market and our customers. This is a critical component of our plan to modernise the commercial turkey distribution infrastructure in the USA.

Matt McCready, Hendrix Genetics director of business development, added the hatchery would join the network of owned, aligned and contracted hatchery capacity set up to supply the strong demand for Hybrid genetics in the USA.

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ABS Global announced July 12 the launch of NuEra Genetics, a new brand that encompasses all proprietary ABS beef breeding programs, evaluations, and indexes in order to deliver differentiated and superior terminal genetics for beef supply chain profitability.

ABS said NuEra Genetics symbolizes the next chapter in the history of ABS beef genetics and a new era of ABS beef genetic improvement.

This new brand provides customers access to continuous genetic improvement and a wider array of tailored evaluations and indexes that deliver genetic progress and profit faster, ABS said.

How will customers benefit? According to ABS, the answer is found in the NuEra Genetics tagline: Efficiency. Profitability. Sustainability. With NuEra, the goal is to optimize the customers efficiency, leading to greater profitability, and ultimately allowing for a sustainable system.

The new brand will strive to:

Customers should look for new products to be released under the NuEra Genetics brand in the coming months. Such products include proprietary indexes tailored to specific customer needs, making it easier for customers to select the most efficient and profitable genetics. In the long-term, NuEra will consistently deliver robust genetic improvement, year-on-year, to our customers, raising the bar of what is possible for them to achieve.

As we see dairymen focus the adoption of sexed genetics on their high-ranking females, NuEra Genetics will provide these producers with elite beef genetics for those lower-ranking cows, adding a significant revenue stream to their businesses, said Nate Zwald, chief operating officer of ABS Globals dairy division.

Jerry Thompson, chief operating officer of ABS Globals beef division, said NuEra Genetics has the potential to add significant value to the beef industry globally. Weve only really just scratched the surface and creating our own genetics to drive customer profitability will help us tap into many areas of growth opportunity.

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Afsaneh Khetrapal | July 12, 2017 | News Medical

The term tongue twisting comprises rolling, folding, rotating, adjusting, and turning of the tongueAll aspects of a person are in some way influenced by genetics. Likewise, the tongue structure or its movement is controlled by ones respective gene patternTongue twisting is not a genetic disease or disorder, but a unique activity by a person using his tongue.

The early history of tongue genetics stated that the ability of tongue twisting is due to the influence of traitsThe tongue rolling ability occurs due to the influence of a dominant allele of the gene. A person who has either one or two copies of the dominant allele will be able to twist their tongue. In the case that a person is born with two recessive alleles, they cannot twist their tongue. In most cases, parents with a twisting-tongue ability can give birth to non-tongue twisters, and vice versa.

After a long-drawn out struggle, geneticists and researchers have finally proved that tongue twisting does not occur by genetic transformation. Genetic inheritance has only a minimal role to play in tongue twisting skills.

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Ah, summer vacation. The time of year when high school students laze on the beach, sleep in and stay up late binge watching their favorite TV shows.

But Greenwood native Emelee Guest is doing none of that. Her days have been occupied looking for mutations on Cullin-4B, a gene that has been linked to intellectual disabilities.

Ive been working with gene CUL4B and basically studying mutation E900X, which is basically a truncating mutation and Ive been studying the effects that a treatment called G-418 has on the mutation, is how the 17-year-old describes her work.

An incoming senior at the Governors School for Science and Mathematics in Hartsville, the 17-year-old is taking part in an intensive six-week research experience at the Greenwood Genetic Center under the guidance of Dr. Anand Srivastava, associate director for the facilitys Center for Molecular Studies.

Guest, who spent her freshman and sophomore years at Greenwood High School, said she was drawn to the field of genetics because she has relatives living with cystic fibrosis and epilepsy.

Part of my motivation is to help them. Ive watched them grow up with them, Guest said.

Guest is in elite company. Just one of 12 specialized, residential high schools in the country, the Governors School for Science and Mathematics which has an acceptance process offers more than 50 STEM classes with college and graduate-level opportunities and AP classes that enable students to earn multiple credits before starting their high education careers.

At my old school, we would sit there and learn, but there would be no application of it and there, we have labs once a week and they have more biology electives, Guest said. People say, get there, get anywhere, and its the hardest two years of your life.

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Srivastava, whos taken summer interns from the Governors School for more than 10 years, said the arrangement is mutually beneficial for research institutions like the Genetic Center, which gets access to the next generation of scientists while providing real-world experience for students.

They are very committed, they desire to learn because they have some goals, Srivastava said. We try to design a project that is part of some ongoing project and they get to work with somebody in my lab, which allows them to learn and become independent.

Guest, who is undecided between pursuing a career in genetics and ecology, said the practical skills of working at summer internship in a high pressure laboratory setting are impactful.

I dont think I could have guessed what it was going to be like, just because I havent a lot of experience just some little things in class and its nothing like the real thing, she said. Its a little stressful sometimes because its a lot of small things that have to correctly but once you get used to it, its really exciting.

Contact staff writer Adam Benson at 864-943-5650 or on Twitter @ABensonIJ.

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Genetics may play a larger role how children see the world, and how that world is altered when a child has autism, a small observational study found.

Researchers writing in Nature examined 250 typically developing toddlers who watched videos of someone speaking or children playing where they could look at either the eyes, mouth, body or surrounding objects. Identical twins tended to look at the same thing, and looked at the subject's eyes and mouth at the same time compared to non-identical twins and non-sibling pairs. But when examining a group of children with autism, those children looked at the subject's eyes and mouth much less.

The authors said that their findings could lead to more findings about which genes are involved in social engagement and how autism may have the ability to interrupt these genetic pathways.

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