UK National Livestock Biobank

30/10/2025

Thank you to British Cattle Breeders Club for visiting to learn more about our biobanking mission here at the UK National Livestock Biobank , as well as our sister organisations, Gemini Genetics, Stallion AI Services and Nature's SAFE. 🧬

03/06/2025

Excited to announce an important publication!
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Led by the team at NordGen, with collaboration from the team here at UK National Livestock Biobank , and international collaborators in the field of animal biobanking.

'Across borders – the status and future opportunities for long-term conservation of Nordic animal genetic resources' - linked below.

Thank you to the team at NordGen for inviting us to be part of this exciting collaboration 🧬🐂🐄🐑🐖🐓

Don’t miss this recently published article on animal genetic resources (AnGR)! 🐂 🐄 🐑 🐖 🐓

The Nordic countries house a broad range of farm and companion animal breeds and subspecies that play a critical role in environmental sustainability, food safety and security, and human activities. Unfortunately, close to 80% of these breeds and subspecies are either endangered or critically endangered, with population sizes too small to ensure their long-term survival. In addition, almost half of them have either a declining orunknown demographic trend, and many of them suffer from high inbreeding.

Due to the increasing demand for additional measures for safeguarding AnGR, this document discusses the status of active AnGR conservation measures in the Nordic countries and emphasize the central role of regional cooperation in ensuring AnGR sustainability and long-term viability. Further, the contributions of cryoconservation in mitigating genetic losses are discussed.

Read the article ”Across borders – the status and future opportunities for long-term conservation of Nordic animal genetic resources” in Genetic Resources here ⬇️
https://www.genresj.org/index.php/grj/article/view/genresj.BAIQ2696/284
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I Norden finns mer än 160 olika lantrasdjur, alla med egenskaper som är viktiga att bevara för framtida generationer. Dessvärre är hela 80 procent av dessa lantraser klassificerade som ”hotade” eller ”kritiskt hotade”, många med populationer som är för små för att försäkra en långsiktig bevaring. En ny vetenskaplig artikel i publikationen Genetic Resources kretsar kring vikten av att bevara dessa unika tillgångar. Se länk ovan för att komma till artikeln.

25/11/2024

We are looking forward to speaking at the British Cattle Breeding Conference held by the British Cattle Breeders Club in January 2025! We hope it will be an informative day and with the theme being 'The Herd of the Future', we think the biobank will be a very relevant topic to be included in the conference🐮 get your tickets now and we'll see you there🤩

The British Cattle Breeding Conference Programme of speakers has been announced. View the programme and book your place online - https://mailchi.mp/738329ee02c3/2025-programme-online-booking-open

11/11/2024

Lydia, one of our lab technicians, joined the BSAS expert speakers and delegates for the 'Gene editing farm animals: the facts' conference in Manchester last week. It was an informative day with new legislation, welfare considerations and technological developments covered from multiple agricultural sectors 🐮🐷🧬 thank you BSAS - British Society of Animal Science for a great event and The Roslin Institute's support!

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Manchester today for the 'gene editing farm animals' conference.

Discussing, exploring, challenging and collaborating takes us further than siloed approaches and we are very grateful to our speakers and delegates for bringing their knowledge and energy to this important topic 👏👏

The Roslin Institute Agri-Food and Biosciences InstituteTeagasc University of Nottingham School of Medicine AHDB SRUC

04/11/2024

It's not every day you stand next to the world's first cloned mammal! 🐑🧬 One of our lab technician's Lydia took a recent trip to Edinburgh and met Dolly the Sheep whilst visiting the National Museum of Scotland!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dolly was cloned in 1996 at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. It's amazing to see how far we have come in the science of cloning and advanced breeding technologies🔬👩‍🔬

21/10/2024

𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐆𝐌
Thank you to Leicester Longwool Sheepbreeders Association for inviting the UK National Livestock Biobank to their AGM, to give a presentation on how biobanking can assist in endangered breed & species conservation.

09/07/2024

How does our biobank model help? Our model enables us to:

1. Indefinitely preserve livestock genetics – so valuable livestock DNA can be stored beyond the lifespan of the original animal and stored for as long as needed, for future use.

2. Regeneratively store livestock DNA – we aim for all preserved samples to be capable of creating new life, to ensure breed & food security, at both the individual herd and national level.

Contact us for more information:
Web: https://www.livestockbiobank.com/
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 01948 668057

18/06/2024

The UK National Livestock Biobank is the solution to the UK's declining and endangered livestock populations.

Using proven genetic preservation protocols and systematically recording animal data, we make up a regenerative animal gene bank. UK breed and food production security are our top priority.

Contact us for more information:
Web: https://www.livestockbiobank.com/
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 01948 668057

04/06/2024

The UK National Livestock Biobank is a farm animal gene bank, established to ensure UK livestock breed and herd preservation, diversity, and national food security.

Our project leader, Lucy sums up the need for this resource perfectly: "We firmly believe that we need to act to preserve and safeguard what is available to us today, to ensure a sustainable, resilient and adaptable tomorrow, with the multi model, regenerative cryopreservation model of the UK National Livestock Biobank providing the technology upon which this can be achieved."

Contact us for more information:
Web: https://www.livestockbiobank.com/
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 01948 668057

28/05/2024

Alongside the preservation of skin samples, the UK National Livestock Biobank also provides for gamete sample storage. This includes frozen semen, embryos and eggs. This reproductive sample repository can be used to collate on farm semen collections to a central, cataloged system, enabling the capture of reproductive resources that could prove vital to future farming systems.

Contact us for more information on how we can help preserve your livestock's genetics:
Web: https://www.livestockbiobank.com/
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 01948 668057