University of Georgia

A website from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

West Laboratory

News Feed

  • The West Lab Recieves Part of 1.6 million Dollar Grant from the Gates Foundation

    The West lab received part of a 1.6 million dollar grant to help generate Newcastle disease resistant chickens. Read about how this fundamental research will help poor farmers around the world: CBS Atlanta Atlanta Business Chronicle Red And Black

    Posted in:

  • NDRI Stem Cell Workshop Makes the Popular Press

    Newspaper articles from my recent trip to India. 

    Posted in:

  • Dr. West goes to India

    India is rapidly growing country with millions of people to feed. To produce more and better quality dairy products and meat, livestock biotechnology is seen as the way of the future, particularly stem cell technology. Livestock stem cells can be genetically manipulated to generate cows that have increased milk yields, larger chickens or buffalo that…

    Posted in:

  • An Exciting Talk and Discussion with the Atlanta Chapter of the ARCS Foundation.

    Dr. West gave a talk at the January Business meeting of the ARCS Foundation Atlanta Chapter. He discussed his groundbreaking work in the differentiation of stem cells into sperm cell and the derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells from pigs. He outlined the potential of using stem cell derived germ cells to screen for toxic…

    Posted in:

  • One of “GA’s Best and Brightest 40 under 40”

    In the October 2010 issue of Georgia Trend Magazine, Dr. Franklin West was chosen as one of “GA’s Best and Brightest 40 under 40.” “Like the stem cells that he studies, Franklin West has morphed into something else.” – GeorgiaTrend

    Posted in:

  • Paving A New Way With Pigs

    Georgia Trend Magazine Jerry Grillo, September 2010 Two UGA scientists make a remarkable breakthrough Reproduction can be pressing business, fraught with challenges. But two University of Georgia scientists made a breakthrough discovery in reproduction and regeneration that has thrown open the doors to wide-ranging possibilities, including new therapies for devastating human diseases and the preservation…

    Posted in:

  • We made the cover of Stem Cells and Development!

    Porcine induced pluripotent stem cells produce chimeric offspring. West FD, Terlouw SL, Kwon DJ, Mumaw JL, Dhara SK, Hasneen K, Dobrinsky JR, Stice SL. Stem Cells Dev. 2010 Aug;19(8):1211-20. Abstract Ethical and moral issues rule out the use of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in chimera studies that would determine the full extent of…

    Posted in:

  • Yubing “Half Man-Half Amazing” Liu

    Yubing Liu received a scholarship to come to the U.S. and work on germ cell differentiation and signaling from the Chinese Scientific Council. Yubing is from the Animal Genetics and Reproduction division of the Department of Animal Science and Technology at Guangxi University where he received the prestigious Chinese Scientific Council award. This highly competitive…

    Posted in:

  • Fox News features our research

    Posted in:

  • Highlighted on Georgia Farm Monitor

    Posted in: