A unique chicken breed is helping researchers better understand vitiligo, an autoimmune disease that affects 1–2% of the world's population. In vitiligo, the immune system attacks cells called ...
Kenny Coogan: [00:00:00] One of the interesting facts about the history of that breed is that the US Department of Agriculture Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland developed that breed over seven ...
Gisela Erf, professor of immunology, holds a Smyth line rooster with vitiligo. The line, paired with its parental Brown line, has helped Erf and others with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment ...