date:Aug 16, 2012
The project is led jointly by Dr Tamsyn Crowley and Dr Anthony Keyburn from Poultry CRC, both of whom will be using cutting-edge genetic technology to create a new welfare test, by drawing on the properties ofsmall non-coding ribonucleic acids (RNAs), also known as microRNAs or miRNAs.
Keyburn explained that stress in poultry is currently assessed through measuring the amount of hormone corticosterone in blood, which he said works becausecorticosterone is released by the adrenalin glands when