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Anna Denicol

Anna Denicol

Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Science at UC Davis; reproductive biologist specializing in ovarian biology and dairy cow genetics.

Jul 22, 2026

5:19
no that's awesome so i was going to ask so how can these new technologies or advanced technologies be incorporated into current breeding schemes using ai and et etc but i almost feel like the real question is are these new technologies taking us into new spaces entirely and i know one of the things that we're going to talk about maybe we can just bleed into this is gene editing and utilizing gene editing but do they actually just build on what we're currently doing? Or do we focus on stuff that's infused into the things that we're already doing, if that makes sense?
5:52
Yeah, I think that we can talk about things that can be incorporated into what we are already doing, right? So that's easier to do because it's easier to implement.
6:02
For example, using the embryos, right? In vitro produced embryos.
6:04
Take sperm and eggs from animals, elite animals or slaughterhouse, whatever source you want to use those embryos from.
6:10
or gametes from, and you make embryos in vitro.
6:13
Now, you can use those embryos to do gene editing, for example, if you wanted to do that.
6:21
You can edit those embryos at very early stages, at the zygote stage, usually.
8:55
So so if gene editing sort of next level and we wanted to talk a little bit about gene editing, are we getting to a point where we can legitimately start talking about gene editing to remove mastitis from the industry or to remove concerns about tuberculosis, for instance? Are we are we getting there at some level?

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