Risk level of disease entering UK raised following spread across Eastern, Central Europe

SuperMeat, a firm that grows chicken meat from live chicken cells, has raised $3 million in seed funding.

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) causes severe economic losses to current swine production worldwide. Highly pathogenic PRRSV (HP-PRRSV), originated from a genotype 2 PRRSV, is more virulent than classical PRRSV and further exacerbates the economic impact. HP-PRRSV has...

Parturient rats show a postpartum estrus, a period of sexual receptivity that occurs from 6 to 15 h after the birth of a litter, which allows the mother to gestate a second litter while simultaneously nursing the first one (lactating and pregnant). The present study investigated hormone levels and...

Objective: This study was performed with the objective of identifying the proportion of emerging and endemic livestock diseases using cross sectional survey. Result: A total of 285 clinically diseased animals were presented to a veterinary clinic and diagnosed tentatively based on history, clinical ...

Tenualosa ilisha, a commercially important anadromous fish has declined drastically in nature. This study was aimed to culture the species and develop a weaning method for its domestication. The fry (29.5±0.26 mm/0.28±0.01 g) were reared at 30000 nos. ha^-1 in 0.1 ha freshwater pond where two...

A study was carried out to find out dairy animals management practices adopted by the rural dairy herds in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh. The farm owners are mostly in the age group of 25 to 50 years and their mean in 38 years, for the medium category of dairy herds it was 30 to 50 years and...

Despite their recognized agricultural sustainability benefits, mixed crop-livestock farms have declined in the Northern hemisphere. As such, crop-livestock integration beyond the farm level is a promising alternative to this trend, but the knowledge of critical factors and strategies towards its...

Specific ssDNA aptamers for the antibiotic florfenicol (FF) were developed from an enriched nucleotide library using magnetic beads-based SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment) technique with high-binding affinity. After 12 rounds of selection, thirty-six sequences were...

Tetracyclines are widely used for both the treatment and prevention of diseases in animals as well as for the promotion of rapid animal growth and weight gain. This practice may result in trace amounts of these drugs in products of animal origin, such as milk and eggs, posing serious risks to human ...