Wright-Fleming Institute Infection and Immunity Seminar Date Time 16.00 to 17.00 Venue Rothschild Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, The-Wright-Fleming Institute,...

BIG DNA, the Roslin-based life sciences company, has secured a further £1.5 million of funding to help it develop its vaccine technology. The money will come from an international consortium including institutional and private investors based in the Ca The company is developing a technique...

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Remember Bird Flu? It was due, about two years ago, to come in and kill us all. The media had us writing our wills, calling our loved ones, culling birds - they had us weeping with...

Importers bringing live cattle and sheep into Northern Ireland were urged today to stop after a new strain of the Bluetongue virus spread from the European mainland to...

UK - The Ulster Farmersâ Union says the detection of the BTV1 strain of Bluetongue in Northern England is a significant warning to local farmers not to put the industry at disease risk through animal...

THE Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed that five out of a batch of nine Bazadaise cattle, legally imported to a farm near Blackpool, Lancashire, have tested positive for the BTV1 strain of the bluetongue...

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL The BBSRC has announced the winners of the 2008 David Phillips fellowships for scientists who have demonstrated high potential and who wish to establish themselves as independent...

The Scottish Government has praised the quick response in culling animals imported to England with bluetongue virus 1. Description: The cattle were imported to the Blackpool area of England from South West France and were culled within 24 hours of positive laboratory results becoming...

The Scottish Government today praised the quick response in culling animals imported to England with bluetongue virus 1. The cattle were imported to the Blackpool area of England from South West France and were culled within 24 hours of positive laboratory results becoming...

Ulcers start appearing around the mouth, nose and eyes. Then the neck starts to swell, followed by the head. There is lameness. The virus multiplies and soon the beast starts bleeding...

Unlike foot-and-mouth bluetongue disease does not spread from animal to animal but is instead transmitted by midges Related Articles Search Search Go Bookmark & Share Importers bringing live cattle and sheep into Northern Ireland were urged today to stop after a new strain of the Bluetongue.

Importers bringing live cattle and sheep into the North were urged today to stop after a new strain of the Bluetongue virus spread from the European mainland to...

An international consortium of researchers has begun an effort to sequence the genome of the domesticated turkey, Meleagris gallopavo. The genome sequence will be obtained using the Roche GS-FLX sequencing platform and the recently launched Roche GS FLX Titanium PicoTiterPlate device and...

An international consortium of researchers has begun an effort to sequence the genome of the domesticated turkey, Meleagris gallopavo. The genome sequence will be obtained using the Roche GS-FLX sequencing platform and the recently launched Roche GS FLX Titanium PicoTiterPlate device and...

1 Neuropathogenesis Division, Roslin Institute, Compton, United Kingdom; 2 Neuropathogenesis Division, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; and 3 Lasswade Laboratory, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Penicuik, United Kingdom The emergence of...

Turkey's first cloned sheep, named Oyal, has turned 1. Oyal, who was born at stanbul University's veterinarian faculty by caesarean section a year ago, had her birth celebrated by faculty professors, who cut a cake in her...

The severe financial impact of Foot and Mouth Disease on Scotland s beef and lamb sectors has been put into sharp focus by the annual analysis of performance and profitability by the red meat promotion and development body, Quality Meat...

The severe financial impact of Foot and Mouth Disease on Scotlandâ s beef and lamb sectors has been put into sharp focus by the annual analysis of performance and profitability by the red meat promotion and development body, Quality Meat...

Food Law News - EU - 2008 Commission Press Release (IP/08/1371), See also related news item: ANIMAL WELFARE - Questions and Answers on the proposal for the protection of animals at the time of killing For a copy of the Commission proposal on this site, see: - Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION on the...

Dr Nigel Kerby, managing director of Mylnefield Research Services (MRS), met the Chinese Minister of Agriculture, Sun Zhengcai, at the official launch conference of the UK China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN).

IRELAND is now one of the few EU countries to have escaped the bluetongue livestock disease scourge. Livestock restrictions due to the disease have spread across member states, as new strains have been infecting sheep and...

Babies who suffer from fatal kidney defects in the womb could have a chance at survival, thanks to a genetic breakthrough by Australian scientists currently being tested at the birthplace of Dolly the cloned...

.'This has the potential to help unborn babies survive kidney defects or allow premature babies a better start in life,' said , who heads the renal regeneration group at Monash...

BABIES who suffer from fatal kidney defects in the womb could have a chance at survival, thanks to a genetic breakthrough by Australian scientists currently being tested at the birthplace of Dolly the cloned...

Babies who suffer from fatal kidney defects in the womb could have a chance at survival, thanks to a genetic breakthrough by Australian scientists currently being tested at the birthplace of Dolly the cloned...

Related topics: Science & Nutrition Armed with a 60 million war chest from the Scottish government, researchers in Aberdeen are aiming to slow the progress of Alzheimer with bioactive compounds from...

The Scottish Government revealed that it will help its food and drink industry reach 10bn by 2017 through science assisted product development and sustainable growth...

Related topics: Research, Antioxidants, carotenoids, Phytochemicals, plant extracts, Cognitive and mental function Armed with a â ¤60 million war chest from the Scottish government, researchers in Aberdeen are aiming to slow the progress of Alzheimerâ with bioactive compounds from...

BLACKCURRANTS AND bread could help sufferers of Alzheimer s and heart disease, scientists from the Scottish Research Institute (SCRI) at Invergowrie told ministers...

Published: Scientists at the John Innes Institute have created genetically modified purple tomatoes JUST three weeks ago, I was extolling the virtues of yellow, autumn-fruiting raspberries, making the point that colour is quite important when it comes to acceptance of any object, whether it be a new shirt,.

SAC is organising this 2-day meeting from 27-28th November to consider the complex issues that agriculture is facing and how best to manage animal health and welfare in a changing...

Bread which can help control diabetes, a tomato extract that may reduce heart disease and super berries containing high doses of vitamins are some of the developments being produced by Scottish Government supported...

Bread which can help control diabetes, a tomato extract that may reduce heart disease and super berries containing high doses of vitamins are some of the developments being produced by Scottish Government supported...

Scientists in Scotland will lead research to identify natural substances in blackcurrants that may delay the progress of dementia, one of the scourges of an increasingly elderly...

A person's chances of developing disease could be cut by eating blackcurrants, according to scientists. Researchers at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) are looking into cost-effective ways of extracting a specific compound in the fruit and developing it as food...

Scottish scientists are seeking to create super blackcurrants and spin-off snacks which could help prevent dementia. Researchers at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), a centre of international expertise on the blackcurrant, have been funded by the European Commission to investigate...

A couple who committed one of the worst cases of animal health and welfare offences ever seen in Surrey could be jailed. Kenneth Kearl, 57, and Alison Kearl, 48, pleaded guilty in Guildford Crown Court on Monday to offences including exposing their cattle to danger and breaching rules on the...

Blackcurrants can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, a study found Scientists are working on a project to find a cost-effective way of developing the compounds as food...

Compounds in blackcurrants could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, food researchers have said. Scientists are working on a project to find a cost-effective way of developing the compounds as food...

The scientists want to use waste from when blackcurrants are processed Scottish scientists are working on ways of using blackcurrant waste to help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's...

Bread which can help control diabetes, a tomato extract that may reduce heart disease and super berries containing high doses of vitamins are some of the exciting developments being produced by Scottish Government supported...

By Denise Glass Tayside reporter, BBC Scotland news website Toast it! opened four weeks ago and the manager is confident it will survive Despite constant news and reminders about the credit crunch, with consumers spending less and firms failing, it appears some people are still confident enough to set up new.

Bread which can help control diabetes, a tomato extract that may reduce heart disease and super berries containing high doses of vitamins are some of the exciting developments being produced by Scottish Government-supported...

SCOTLAND's flagship publicly backed research and development body will be forced to look for additional cash from Europe as it prepares for cuts in its budget as a consequence of the Scottish Government slashing funding at Scottish...

Information road shows and a helpline have been set up to help farmers comply with the compulsory bluetongue vaccination programme. The Scottish Government and industry will host a series of 12 road shows the across the country to discuss the programme with farmers and answer...

VENLO, The Netherlands - QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) has announced today that it has entered into a worldwide exclusive partnership with the Institute for Animal Health (IAH), a leading research and diagnostics institution for infectious diseases of farm...

A SMALL but important detail was missing from your recent sheep scab article Good biosecurity can keep sheep scab off farms (FG, p16, Animal Health supplement, October 24) where it says injectable treatments such as Ivermectin deliver good control against scab .

KJ VENLO, GERMANY--(Marketwire - November 06, 2008) - Worldwide license agreement expands the Company's veterinary assay portfolio and aims to contain future outbreaks of the devastating viral disease 2008-11-06 22:14:06 QIAGEN (QGEN) and Institute for Animal Health Enter Partnership in Bluetongue...

Worldwide license agreement expands the Company s veterinary assay portfolio and aims to contain future outbreaks of the devastating viral disease Venlo, The Netherlands - QIAGEN...